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Where Finance Finds Its Future

Where Finance Finds Its Future

By: Future of Finance
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The New Face of Finance, Where Finance Finds Its Future. Future of Finance has one overriding goal. It is to host meetings (at the moment virtual meetings) that bring together long established members of the financial services industry (banks, brokers, asset managers, insurers, financial market infrastructures) with entrepreneurs (challenger banks, technology companies and FinTechs) and market authorities (central banks, regulators and policymakers) to explore how the financial services industry can grow faster by being more open, more innovative and more trustworthy. If you would like to get in touch about featuring on a podcast, please email wendy.gallagher@futureoffinance.biz

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  • It is time to take tokenisation back from the tinkerers

    It is time to take tokenisation back from the tinkerers
    Jul 6 2026

    A Future of Finance interview Ian Hunt, an Independent Advisor and Author.


    Tokenisation enthusiasts are frustrated. A technology capable of transforming the entire financial architecture of the world is reduced to searching for “uses-cases” where it can mobilise or settle assets cheaper and faster than the status quo provided a “business case” can be made for making the investment. So the time was ripe for a restatement of the case for revolution. In Replicating Legacy is Squandering the Promise of Tokenisation: We Are Building a Faster Horse, Ian Hunt, a consultant to the asset management industry, and Steve Whyman, the former Head of Debt Capital Markets Trading at Fidelity International, provide exactly that. They warn that if tokenisation continues to develop on its present course, it will merely replicate the existing system, complete with its excessive costs, poor investment outcomes, duplicative infrastructures and operational, regulatory and legal silos. The opportunity the paper describes is to build a “composable” financial system made up of interoperable components that conform to a single design, which can be assembled into any conceivable financial asset or liability. Its promise is not just lower costs but wider access and higher returns. Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance, spoke to Ian Hunt, co-author of the paper, about what a composable financial system is and how to make it happen.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • The tokenised fund revolution begins

    The tokenised fund revolution begins
    Jun 22 2026
    On 19 March 2026 Coinbase Asset Management added a tokenised share class to the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund (CBYF) it launched in April 2025. The tokens, issued on to the Base blockchain built by parent company Coinbase, are aimed at institutional investors. Digital fund administration pioneers Apex Group are supporting distribution of the tokens with blockchain-based transfer agency capabilities that automate investor on-boarding and keep transactions in tokenised versions of the CBYF aligned with the register of investors that hold CBYF in non-tokenised form. By conducting a bold experiment in combining the risk and rewards of generating yield on holdings of Bitcoin with the operational benefits of using blockchain technology without compromising on traditional levels of investor protection, Coinbase Asset Management and Apex Group may have found the key to scaling the tokenised funds industry. Future of Finance Co-founder Dominic Hobson will be asking the panellists why asset managers everywhere should be excited about this deal.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • How to build a cryptocurrency trading, investing and custody infrastructure for your clients

    How to build a cryptocurrency trading, investing and custody infrastructure for your clients
    May 29 2026
    Institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies is increasing. Why? In Europe, MiCAR has delivered regulatory certainty. In the United States, the new administration has embraced both cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins - the crucial bridge between the cryptocurrency and money markets - and the courts have authorised spot Bitcoin ETFs, turning cryptocurrencies into a legitimate institutional asset class. In Germany, where early and effective legislative progress in the domestic market is now reinforced by a standardised regulatory framework spanning the whole of the European Union - the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR) - both law and regulation facilitate the purchase and sale, trading and safekeeping of cryptocurrencies for both dealing and investment purposes. As a result of these developments, regulated institutions on both sides of the Atlantic are scrambling to build cryptocurrency trading, investing and custody services for their clients. This webinar explores how regulated institutions can offer their clients safe access to cryptocurrency markets in the form of brokerage, trading, settlement and custody services, unlock new business opportunities for their firms and manage the risks of cryptocurrency activities, while remaining fully compliant with their regulatory obligations.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
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