Where Finance Finds Its Future

Future of Finance interviews, Jan-Oliver Sell is the CEO of Qivalis

The euro is the second most important central bank reserve currency behind the US dollar. Yet it has lacked a Stablecoin presence commensurate with its international status: 99 per cent of Stablecoins are issued in US dollars and euros account for just 0.2 per cent of Stablecoins in circulation worldwide. 37 European banks from 15 countries have now joined forces to address that gap, supplying both the funding and the power to distribute a euro Stablecoin for use as an atomic settlement asset in on-chain payments, trade finance and corporate liquidity management as well as for settling tokenised securities, funds and real estate transactions. Their chosen vehicle is the year-old, Amsterdam-headquartered Qivalis consortium, which has applied to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) for authorisation as an Electronic Money Institution, which would empower the organisation to issue tokens under the Markets in Crypto-Asset Regulation (MiCAR) of the European Union (EU). Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance, asked Jan Sell, CEO of Qivalis, how the Stablecoin will be backed and managed, what technologies it will be based on, what incentives the target audience have to use it and how it fits into a European capital market environment about to be transformed by the launch of the digital euro.

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Future of Finance Interview with Pavel Jakovlev at AMINA Bank, Artemiy Parshakov at P2P.org, Ray Dillet at Bitwise and Christopher Perkins at Franklin Templeton.

As cryptocurrencies become a standard part of institutional portfolios, asset managers are increasingly focused on generating sustainable yield—without compromising custody, governance, or risk controls.

Staking has emerged as a core mechanism to earn yield on proof-of-stake networks, and adoption is accelerating as custodians integrate staking services directly into secure custody frameworks. Beyond staking, certain assets—like Bitcoin—generate yield through lending, while yield-bearing Stablecoins are redefining how institutions earn returns on digital cash equivalents.

Participants will discover how custodians serve as the gateway to secure, institutional-grade staking and lending, balancing asset safety with participation in yield-generating opportunities. The session highlights differences and overlaps between staking and lending, guiding institutions on opportunity assessment, risk management, and strategic decision-making in a rapidly evolving market.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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