Archive | Institutional Briefing

Pontes Goes Live on Monday: What You Need to Know

Sep 17, 2026

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7 min read

Pontes Goes Live on Monday: What You Need to Know

On 21 September the Eurosystem starts settling tokenized assets in central bank money. What the service does, where its limits lie, and what the operators plan for the first year.

Louis Tellier, Maximilian Vargas

Weekly Briefing

BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Join Europe’s Deposit Token Network

Sep 10, 2026

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7 min read

BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Join Europe’s Deposit Token Network

The German-born CBMT project is expanding into a broader European network as banks look beyond stablecoins to programmable commercial bank money.

Louis Tellier, Maximilian Vargas

Weekly Briefing

Sep 3, 2026

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7 min read

NYSE Selects tZERO as Second Partner for Its Tokenization Platform

The exchange is pursuing two routes onchain at once, and the separate venue is the one that needs partners built around it.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

FASB Proposes Guidance on Treating Stablecoins as Cash Equivalents in the U.S.

The proposal would clear an accounting barrier to stablecoins in corporate treasury. It would not touch the prudential one.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 20, 2026

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5 min read

SEC Opens BENJI to Franklin Templeton’s Own Funds

The no-action letter lets Franklin's mutual funds and ETFs park cash in its $726 million tokenized money market fund, and sets the first template for blockchain-based fund ownership under the 1940 Act.

Weekly Briefing

Oct 30, 2025

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14 min read

IBM Debuts 'Digital Asset Haven' Platform With Dfns to Ease Institutional Access

On Monday, tech giant IBM announced the launch of Digital Asset Haven, a platform for institutions to custody, manage, and settle digital assets. Built with wallet-infrastructure provider Dfns, the platform runs on the same systems that already process most of the world’s payments and capital-markets operations.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Oct 23, 2025

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14 min read

Lise Secures EU DLT License to Open Capital Markets to SMEs

French startup Lise has obtained authorization to operate a DLT-based market infrastructure under the EU’s Pilot Regime. Now it wants to open public capital markets to smaller companies.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Oct 21, 2025

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5 min read

ODDO BHF, First European Bank to Bring Stablecoin Reserves Onto Its Balance Sheet: “This model will become a reference”

By launching EUROD, ODDO BHF has become the first European bank to issue a euro-denominated, regulation-compliant stablecoin with reserves directly integrated into its balance sheet — a setup that removes one of the main constraints banks have faced when issuing stablecoins. We spoke with Guy de Leusse, Deputy COO of Oddo BHF.

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Louis Tellier

Oct 16, 2025

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14 min read

Major Banks Join Forces to Explore Issuance of Digital Money

On Friday, ten major banks, including Santander, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citi, announced they are joining forces to explore issuing a “1:1 reserve-backed form of digital money” on public blockchains, initially focused on G7 currencies.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Oct 9, 2025

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14 min read

“Europe Needs a Unified Capital Markets DLT” — The Regulated Layer 1 (RL1) Aims to Deliver It

Last week, Frankfurt-based SWIAT announced the Regulated Layer 1 (RL1), a shared ledger for capital-markets activity that builds on the existing SWIAT network under a new cooperative governance model. The initiative unites ten European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank, DZ BANK, KfW, LBBW, Natixis CIB, and NatWest.

Weekly Briefing

Maximilian Vargas, +1

Oct 2, 2025

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14 min read

Digital Assets Take Center Stage at Swift’s Sibos 2025

Since Monday, Sibos, the largest global conference for payments and financial services, has been underway in Frankfurt. As Swift’s flagship event, it also served as the stage for several big announcements.

Weekly Briefing

Maximilian Vargas, +1

Sep 19, 2025

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5 min read

Inside WisdomTree's Tokenization Strategy with Maredith Hannon

Last week, WisdomTree unveiled its first tokenized private credit fund (CRDT), available to both retail and institutional clients. We spoke with Maredith Hannon, Head of Business Development, Digital Assets at WisdomTree, to learn more about the firm’s strategy.

Interview

Louis Tellier, +1

Sep 18, 2025

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15 min read

Exclusive: Losing the Regulatory Race, France Pushes to Shift CASP Supervision to ESMA

On Monday, the French financial supervisor (AMF) published an op-ed co-authored with its Italian and Austrian counterparts calling for the supervision of MiCA-regulated CASPs to be transferred to ESMA, the EU’s financial regulator.

Weekly Briefing

Maximilian Vargas, +1

Sep 11, 2025

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14 min read

Boerse Stuttgart Group Unveils Seturion, a Pan-European DLT Platform for Financial Institutions

The platform builds on technology first deployed in Switzerland, where Boerse Stuttgart’s subsidiary BX Digital — a FINMA-regulated DLT trading venue — already uses Seturion as its settlement layer.

Weekly Briefing

Louis Tellier, +1

Pontes Goes Live on Monday: What You Need to Know

BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Join Europe’s Deposit Token Network

NYSE Selects tZERO as Second Partner for Its Tokenization Platform

FASB Proposes Guidance on Treating Stablecoins as Cash Equivalents in the U.S.

SEC Opens BENJI to Franklin Templeton’s Own Funds

IBM Debuts 'Digital Asset Haven' Platform With Dfns to Ease Institutional Access

Lise Secures EU DLT License to Open Capital Markets to SMEs

ODDO BHF, First European Bank to Bring Stablecoin Reserves Onto Its Balance Sheet: “This model will become a reference”

Major Banks Join Forces to Explore Issuance of Digital Money

“Europe Needs a Unified Capital Markets DLT” — The Regulated Layer 1 (RL1) Aims to Deliver It

Digital Assets Take Center Stage at Swift’s Sibos 2025

Inside WisdomTree's Tokenization Strategy with Maredith Hannon

Exclusive: Losing the Regulatory Race, France Pushes to Shift CASP Supervision to ESMA

Boerse Stuttgart Group Unveils Seturion, a Pan-European DLT Platform for Financial Institutions

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