Tokenisation of financial assets has been seen as a way of potentially improving the efficiency of the investment process for several years now.

This method of trading offers gains in terms of settlement speed, accuracy of data transfers between custody accounts and transparency of information related to a given asset. However, developments in this space have so far been predominantly limited to experimental 'proof of concept' tokenisation use cases, rather than done at scale with real portfolio assets.

New research shows that nearly half (40%) of buy-side investment institutions now have a digital asset tokenisation strategy in place, in expectations of major revenue gains and operating cost savings.