Real-World Asset Tokenisation: How FIs Can Propel this $30 Trillion Opportunity
Discover what FIs can do to capitalise on the advent of tokenisation in this new paper.
Tokenising real-world assets (RWAs) converts tangible, often illiquid, assets into digital tokens that reside on a blockchain, fractionalising them into smaller units, and making them more accessible, efficient, and secure as investments.
Financial institutions have a crucial role to play in advancing and scaling tokenisation to harness its full transformative power– and, with demand for tokenised RWAs estimated to reach over $30 trillion in a decade according to Standard Chartered, the time to act is now.
Discover what the community of FIs across the value chain can do to capitalise on the advent of this new asset class in this new paper.
How is the Tokenisation Ecosystem Evolving to Meet the Growing Demand?
Multiple factors lie behind this strong demand for tokenised assets: the ability tokenisation brings to fractionalise assets into bite-sized pieces for ownership is a game changer for numerous illiquid asset classes. It also unlocks new wealth opportunities for a younger generation of investors who are already interested in digital assets.
Creating a New Asset Class: Tokenising Trade Finance Assets
Tokenisation enhances trade finance by improving market access, simplifying complexity, expanding investible assets, and reducing information asymmetry. It boosts investor confidence, optimises bank capital, and creates a new, efficient, and globally accessible asset class with stable returns.
What the Tokenisation Market Needs – and what Financial Institutions can do
When it comes to bringing tokenisation to scale, the community of financial institutions across the value chain, from originators to custodians to infrastructure providers and investors, each have a crucial role to play across six key areas.