If you have ever wondered how the global payments industry has made some people very rich indeed, read The Payoff, the new book by former SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt and former SWIFT Head of Corporate Affairs Natasha de Terán, published on 1 July. 

The authors show that the payments industry imposes a massive tax on all forms of economic activity, but for once the villains are not the banks, whose work in managing counterparty, settlement and liquidity risk they consider to be more than useful. 

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Back in the blockchain heyday of 2016-18 there was no shortage of schemes to apply the technology to primary market issuance, bond market trading, and post-trade settlement and financing. Some of the ideas of that burst of creativity are now coming to market.

– Bond issuance on to distributed networks

– The on-chain trading of bonds between market participants

– The financing of bond market transactions in an on-chain repo market

– The use of bonds as collateral to secure commercial and central bank money

– Settlement of bond transactions on and off chain

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If you have ever wondered how the global payments industry has made some people very rich indeed, read The Payoff, the new book by former SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt and former SWIFT Head of Corporate Affairs Natasha de Terán, published on 1 July. 

The authors show that the payments industry imposes a massive tax on all forms of economic activity, but for once the villains are not the banks, whose work in managing counterparty, settlement and liquidity risk they consider to be more than useful. 

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Many factors inhibit institutional issuers and investors from adopting security tokens as readily as some institutions have taken to crypto-currencies. But an asset class in need of tokenization - privately managed assets - has been identified and an institutional grade infrastructure is being built to welcome institutional investors.

Alex Kech, the CEO of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency and digital asset custodian Onchain Custodian, has drawn on 22 years in the securities services industry with BNY Mellon and SWIFT to build a service that makes institutional investors comfortable about investing in the token economy. He spoke to Future of Finance co-founder Dominic Hobson about the current state and likely development of the security token markets, what could happen to traditional service providers and the importance of standardising data exchanges.

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Questions posed from the October 2020 discussion and will provide the framework for the June 2021 discussion:

1. How can digital technology help trade finance restore lost capacity?

2. What can regulators do to encourage digitisation?

3. What needs to be standardised in digital finance?

4. How can peripheral parts of the industry best be digitised?

5. Will the various digitisation initiatives in trade finance be consolidated by market forces alone?

6. What are the sources of data in trade finance that are valuable enough to be mined?

7. Do conventional trade finance banks have an incentive to capture and use the data they process and create?

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The principality of Liechtenstein provides the most welcoming environment on the planet for the entrepreneurs of the token economy. Thomas Nägele, managing partner at the Nägele law firm in Vaduz and a software developer as well as a lawyer, was a member of the government working party that drafted the Liechtenstein Trusted Technology Law (TVTG) or Blockchain Act.

He spoke to Future of Finance founder Dominic Hobson about the difficulties of capturing novel, technology-based concepts in law and implementing them in regulation, the need for forms of reintermediation as well as disintermediation in digital asset issuance and investing, and how Liechtenstein can capitalise on its leading position before the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCaR) of the European Union becomes part of the law of Europe.

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Liechtenstein was the first jurisdiction in the world to pass a comprehensive law on tokenization. When the Token and Trustworthy Technology Service Provider Act (TVTG) became law on 1 January 2020, it became possible for issuers to tokenize any asset that exists in the physical world - from real estate, through precious metals and collectibles, to securities such as equities and bonds – with the comfort of legal certainty. 

Dr Thomas Dünser, director of the office of financial innovation of the Government of Liechtenstein and a member of the Supervisory Board of the BFG Blockchain Founders Group in the principality, told Dominic Hobson how intermediaries, issuers and investors are using the law to make a reality of the coming “token economy.”

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