Where Finance Finds Its Future

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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 2d ago

    It is time to take tokenisation back from the tinkerers

    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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 10m

  2. Jun 22

    The tokenised fund revolution begins

    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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 4m

  3. May 29

    How to build a cryptocurrency trading, investing and custody infrastructure for your clients

    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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m

  4. Apr 23

    Lingfeng, LSEG and Archax build a bridge between tokenised and traditional funds

    On 21 April 2026 Lingfeng Capital, the Hong Kong based private equity fund, launched its Digital Venture Fund (DVF) on Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform built by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to host private funds. Archax, the London-based digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian, is simultaneously making the DVF available in tokenised form. While the case for investing in the fund stands and falls on the merits of its investment strategy, tokenisation offers issuers wider distribution to new classes of investor and investors secondary market trading as an alternative to traditional subscriptions and redemptions. By maintaining interoperability between the conventional and tokenised versions of the fund, DVF is endeavouring to prove that traditional and digital funds can be integrated successfully across issuance, distribution, trading and servicing, with sufficient cost savings and additional capital raising to spark a surge of tokenised fund issues. Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance, asked Graham Rodford, Founder and CEO of Archax, and Brian McNulty, General Partner at Lingfeng Capital, about their expectations of the launch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min

  5. Apr 20

    Asset managers are tokenising funds to increase AuM

    Funds have emerged as the main axis of advance for tokenisation. Tokenised money market funds, used first by on-chain cryptocurrency traders, have found a second audience in traditional collateral management. Their close cousin, Stablecoins, are also migrating from the cryptocurrency markets to facilitate instant settlement of fund transactions and round-the-clock trading of tokenised funds. The question is no longer whether tokenised funds offer value to asset managers and allocators, fund distributors and bank and brokerage intermediaries. It is whether they can scale. One school holds that the key to scale is greater interoperability between traditional and digital asset markets. While a preference for digital twins of established funds will always disappoint purists, it does allow asset managers to gather more assets by reaching new classes of investor. Widening distribution also argues for public rather than private blockchains. And no fund servicing business is doing more to enable its customers to issue, distribute and service tokenised funds and asset-backed Stablecoins than Apex Group. Dominic Hobson, Co-founder of Future of Finance, asked Peter Hughes, CEO and founder of Apex Group, why he has placed tokenisation at the forefront of his strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min

  6. Feb 13

    MembersCap is repackaging its tokenised funds to meet the needs of DeFi traders

    Every token issuer knows that scale depends on liquidity, but liquidity depends on scale. To break this cycle, Bermuda-based MembersCap, the specialist reinsurance investment manager, is making available composable versions of its tokenised funds. The firm is confident composability will extend the range of allocators open to investing in MembersCap funds beyond traditional end-investors such as foundations and pension funds to encompass the corporate treasurers, hedge funds, market makers, arbitrageurs, proprietary traders and yield farmers active in the Decentralised Finance (DeFi) markets. The challenge is that the 24/7 trading models characteristic of DeFi demand instant liquidity. MembersCap meets the challenge through an innovative custodial structure. Which means the funds get a liquidity boost as well as wider distribution. Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance, asked Bruce Jackson, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Capital Officer at MembersCap, how it all works. ⭐ Read more about this interview: MembersCap is repackaging its tokenised funds to meet the needs of DeFi traders Learn more and connect with Future of Finance: 🌐 https://www.futureoffinance.biz/ [in] https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-of-finance-fof Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min

  7. Feb 5

    Expect more game-changers in 2026 says digital asset exchange 21X

    The balance between tokenised money market funds and tokenised money will shift. Public blockchains will continue to grow at the expense of private ones, but which protocols prove popular remains unpredictable. The infrastructure for the tokenised markets of the future is being built. Tokenised funds will be overtaken by tokenised securities. The transition from the intermediated markets of the past to the un-intermediated markets of the future is messy but gathering momentum. Jeff Hartjes, executive business manager at 21x, the regulated, blockchain-based digital asset exchange, spoke about these and other issues with Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance. ⭐ Read more about this interview: https://www.futureoffinance.biz/expect-more-game-changers-in-2026-says-digital-asset-exchange-21x Learn more and connect with Future of Finance: 🌐 https://www.futureoffinance.biz/ [in] https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-of-finance-fof Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min

  8. Feb 4

    Traditional finance is hijacking the future of finance

    Emmanuel Daniel, founder of the TAB Global research house, thinks about the effects of digital technology on finance and how the changes it makes possible will impact business and society. In The Great Transition – the personalisation of finance is here, published in September 2022, he predicted that blockchain technology would shift Internet finance from centralised, market-based platforms to a distributed, networked, personalised and democratised model. Today, he is concerned that the future he foresaw is being hijacked by the traditional financial services industry. Future of Finance co-founder Dominic Hobson spoke to Emmanuel Daniel about what went wrong and how it can be put right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min
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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Future of Finance
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    202
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