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Digital Assets
Digital Assets insights
Stay ahead with expert insights and strategies for navigating the dynamic digital asset landscape.
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Stablecoins
Stablecoins are digital assets designed to maintain a stable value relative to a national currency or reference rate, like the USD. They offer the speed and efficiency of digital assets while minimising price volatility, making them useful for payments, trading and cross-border transactions. As adoption grows and regulatory frameworks develop, stablecoins are set to play a pivotal role in the future of finance.
Stablecoins: The first ‘killer app’
Digital assets have the potential to transform the future of finance and stablecoins are an initial key to unlocking this future. Stablecoins offer opportunities for a multitude of applications, such as to facilitate borrowing, lending and cross-border transactions.
The future of stablecoins
In an interview with The Business Times, Luke Boland discusses how clear regulations will pave the way for enhanced collaboration between banks and fintech partners.
Blockchain and trade finance
While businesses in many developing regions face a shortfall of growth capital, new technologies are enabling more finance from global investors.
Future of global commerce
Find out how blockchain can fundamentally reshape how businesses and people transfer value around the world and how stablecoins can transform global commerce.
Tokenisation
Tokenisation is the digital representation of real-world assets on blockchain. For institutional investors, it enhances access, liquidity, and efficiency, enabling faster settlement, greater transparency, and new ways to allocate and manage assets across markets.
A game changer for global trade
Building on learnings from our tokenisation initiatives over the past year, including Project Guardian and Project Dynamo, we share with you our new paper focused on the unprecedented opportunities trade finance asset tokenisation can bring to global trade, and the real problems it can help solve.
Taking advantage of tokenisation
A quick guide outlining what business leaders and corporates need to know to understand and effectively leverage the new advances in tokenisation.
Investing in ASEAN’s digital future
ASEAN’s digital economy offers immense growth opportunities for businesses, and contributes to a connected global ecosystem.
TMMFs and yield to the blockchain
The crypto community are expecting sustained demand for the yield-generating stablecoin alternative. We reveal the challenges and opportunities.
Crypto assets
Crypto assets are digital tokens that use cryptography and blockchain to enable secure, decentralised transactions. They include cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as utility and governance tokens. For institutional investors, crypto assets offer new opportunities for diversification, innovation, and exposure to emerging financial ecosystems.
Three possible futures for DA trading
Where do we trade tomorrow? Exchanges, peer-to-peer, and the quest for a safe and fair digital assets market.
MiCA: A bank’s blueprint for success
Regulators craft crypto rules to protect consumers and ensure stability. As adoption grows in Europe, crypto custody is crucial for trust and security.
Why DAs need an independent custodian
As digital assets adoption grows, so too does the need to store these digital assets safely.
Central bank digital currencies
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are digital forms of sovereign currency issued by central banks. Designed to offer the safety of central bank money with the efficiency of digital payments, CBDCs aim to enhance payment systems, support financial inclusion, and enable innovation. For institutions, they can streamline settlement, reduce counterparty risk, and reshape cross-border transactions.
The impact of RMB internationlisation
Discover how renminbi internationalisation is transforming global trade finance and why now is the time to diversify.
Leading in the CBDC era
Thriving in the CBDC era requires financial institutions to be strategic, proactive, and committed to supporting clients.
The CBDC revolution
CBDCs are transforming financial services. Custodian banks must adapt to meet growing digital asset demand.