Asia's institutional read on tokenisation.
Track Asia's developments on every front, stay ahead of the global moves reaching you next, and build from a foundations-to-playbooks reference library that makes the market legible.
Tracking 146 institutions across 11 jurisdictions · 29 live deployments · Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea covered in depth
Live wire
Updated 14 August 2026- Marketnode Plans to Tokenise BNY Investments Funds on Stellar Network
Marketnode , the Singapore financial market infrastructure, is planning to tokenize BNY Investments funds on the Stellar network to make them available to institutional and...
Reported by: Ledger Insights · Marketnode Media Centre
- MUFG Plans Proof of Concept for Tokenised JGB Intraday Repo on Canton Network
MUFG Group has announced plans for a proof of concept (PoC) to bring Japanese government bond (JGB) repo transactions onchain using the Canton Network , targeting improvements…
- Anchorpoint's HKDAP stablecoin rollout slips again to August 2026
Anchorpoint Financial, the joint venture backed by Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), HKT, and Animoca Brands and one of the first two stablecoin issuer licensees granted by…
- Franklin Templeton and JPM Asset Management push for stablecoin-style KYC rules on tokenised funds
A coalition of major asset managers has asked the US Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to modernize know your customer (KYC) rules for tokenized…
- Africa Finance Corporation issues CHF 350m digital bond on SDX platform
Africa Finance Corporation has issued a CHF 350 million ($431m) digital bond via SIX using the SDX platform.
- Figure doubles revenue to $226m as blockchain loan marketplace hits $4.3bn
Sygnum's APAC Tokenization Report 2026 maps allocation behaviour across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea
- The European Central Bank set a 21 September 2026 go-live for Project Pontes with two settlement models, cash tokens on the Eurosystem's own DLT and a trigger route into the TARGET real-time gross settlement system, and required institutions to register with their national central bank by 7 August 2026 to join the first cohort.
- Circle set a 16 September 2026 mainnet launch for its Arc blockchain with founding validators including BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, Visa, and Standard Chartered, and Arc is slated to join the DTCC Tokenization Service's supported chains in the second half of 2027.
- Wells Fargo confirmed a tokenised-deposit launch this fall for corporate and commercial clients, starting with a limited dollar-to-sterling exchange on its proprietary blockchain and auto-routing eligible payments through the rail, making it the third major US bank alongside JPMorgan and Citi.
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