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Prediction Markets’ Institutional Pivot

Rapid growth across event-based platforms is drawing attention from established exchanges and professional participants. Matt Barrett, CEO at Adaptive, looks at how long-term credibility depends on hard-won lessons from earlier digital market cycles

From concept to core infrastructure

Experts from Broadridge examine how tokenisation is moving from pilot programmes to production-grade infrastructure, and what institutions must get right to make it work at scale

From proof of concept to production scale

Magnus Haglind, senior vice president and head of Capital Markets Technology at Nasdaq, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss where traditional and emerging market models intersect, why liquidity and collateral remain the hard problems, and how extended trading hours are reshaping market structure

Collateral then, blockchain now

Steven Griffiths, founder of Absolute Collateral, considers how blockchain is following the same path collateral once did — moving steadily upstream as markets rethink where critical trading decisions should sit

Growing expectations

Olivier Carré, technology and transformation leader at PwC Luxembourg, looks at the hype surrounding tokenisation, and asks, could it really unlock US$135 billion in cost savings for asset managers?

What's the risk?

Karl Loomes, group editor of The Digital Assets Edge, examines how risk is distributed across the stablecoin stack — from issuers and banks to liquidity providers and users — and why treating stablecoins as ‘digital cash’ can obscure where exposure really sits

Theatre is over

Glenn Handley, founder and CEO of SecFin Solutions, looks at why T+1 settlement and structural balance sheet pressures leave tokenisation not as an efficiency play, but as a necessity for systemic survival

Asset tokenisation

Sorin Jitaru, digital assets expert at CACEIS, looks at how blockchain technology could transform the alternative investment landscape

The digital assets Cold War

What was once imagined as a single global system is splintering into regional ecosystems. From Singapore’s pilots to Brussels’ rulemaking and Washington’s regulatory rethink, the digital-assets landscape has entered a three-way contest of ambition, ideology and market design

Unstable

Karl Loomes, group editor at The Digital Assets Edge, looks at the potential for stablecoins, acting as digital dollars, to exacerbate dollarisation in emerging market economies

Why market integrity is the next great hurdle for institutional crypto

As institutional adoption accelerates, the digital asset industry faces a new priority: ensuring market integrity. Komainu’s chief commercial officer Darren Jordan explores why structural risks, fragmented liquidity, and weak surveillance now pose the biggest barriers to scalable institutional capital

A stroke of GENIUS for stablecoins as post-trade faces change

The United States’ GENIUS Act has been hailed as a breakthrough for stablecoins, but its impact stretches well beyond digital assets. As regulatory clarity brings stablecoins closer to the financial mainstream, asset servicers are assessing what the new framework means for settlement, custody, and post-trade infrastructure

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