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Waters Technology - Native digital assets - a Kodak moment for financial services - Click here to view this entry

Waters Technology - Native digital assets - a Kodak moment for financial services

Tue Mar 19 2024
In a new article for Waters Technology, Dr Ian Hunt suggests that the financial service industry may be heading for its own ‘Kodak’ moment, as a result of its failure to recognise the new business model offered by digitisation. The industry in the UK, US and Europe sees distributed ledger / blockchain technology as something that is just a slightly smarter way of doing exactly what it....
A Better, Simpler Financial Ecosystem through Smart Tokens - Click here to view this entry

A Better, Simpler Financial Ecosystem through Smart Tokens

Mon Jan 8 2024
In a recent edition of DigitalBytes, Dr Ian Hunt explores the sources of complexity in our current operating models and regulations, and proposes how these may be directly addressed through digital issuance. The article explains how our multiple asset classes, with their separate operating models, entities, processes and regulations, create unnecessary complexity that can be collapsed into a singl....
CAPCO JOURNAL #58: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Click here to view this entry

CAPCO JOURNAL #58: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Fri Dec 15 2023
A major new paper from Dr Ian Hunt on the Smart Token Model for Native Digital Assets has been published in the November 2023 edition of the Capco Journal of Financial Transformation. This is a bi-annual collection of serious papers on innovation in financial services. The paper sets out the smart token model, articulates its benefits for investment, capital markets and funds, and demonstrates tha....
Native Digital Assets - Securities Finance Times Issue 326  - Click here to view this entry

Native Digital Assets - Securities Finance Times Issue 326

Fri Dec 15 2023
The smart token model offers substantial benefits across the spectrum of investment activity, including securitisation and securities financing. Securities Finance Times published two papers by Dr Hunt, applying smart tokens, and the single digital issuance and operating model to repo, lending and collateral. The first article provided a short summary of native digital assets and smart tokens, and....
Native Digital Assets - Securities Finance Times Issue 327 - Click here to view this entry

Native Digital Assets - Securities Finance Times Issue 327

Fri Dec 15 2023
The second article from Dr Hunt addressed repo, lending and collateral specifically, and showed how the smart token model would simplify and accelerate securities financing operations. Native Digital Assets - Securities Finance Times Issue 327
Native Digital Funds White Paper on Funds Europe (funds-europe.com) - Click here to view this entry

Native Digital Funds White Paper on Funds Europe (funds-europe.com)

Fri Dec 15 2023
The original papers on Digital Issuance focused on native digital assets and smart tokens in capital markets and institutional investment. Dr Hunt has published a new white paper on Native Digital Funds on the Funds Europe website., which sets out the application of the single smart token issuance and operating model to the world of funds and collective investments. It shows how the native digital....
Native Digital Funds Article Editorial Funds Europe June 2023 - Click here to view this entry

Native Digital Funds Article Editorial Funds Europe June 2023

Fri Dec 15 2023
It is a common reaction to the smart token model for native digital assets for people to ask how it is possible to move from where we are to such a radically different model. The June issue of Funds Europe included an interview with Dr Hunt, and an editorial focused on the potential for a small number of participants, and a friendly jurisdiction, to catalyse the development of a native digital ass....
The Funds Europe Podcast, Episode 4: Tokenisation and the future of funds, feat. Dr. Ian Hunt - Click here to view this entry

The Funds Europe Podcast, Episode 4: Tokenisation and the future of funds, feat. Dr. Ian Hunt

Fri Dec 15 2023
Following on from the focus on native digital funds in the June edition of Funds Europe, the journal has released a podcast has been published on Tokenisation and the Future of Funds: [link]
Wealth Briefing - Introductory Article - Click here to view this entry

Wealth Briefing - Introductory Article

Fri Dec 15 2023
Many people are confused by the term ‘digital assets’, and don’t understand the very different forms of assets and cash that fall under this heading. In the June edition of Wealth Briefing, Dr Ian Hunt published an explanation of what kinds of digital assets there are, and how they fit into a cash / assets, collateralised / native typology: Wealth Briefing - Introductory Article
2014 Global IBOR Standard - Global Investor Spring 2023 - Click here to view this entry

2014 Global IBOR Standard - Global Investor Spring 2023

Fri Dec 15 2023
In 2014, Investment Book of Record was a hot topic, and the Global IBOR Standards Working Group published a radical new template for IBOR platforms. The IBOR standard design articulated by the Group shared many characteristics with blockchain, including immutable history, append-only data management, and block-based (as opposed to relational) data structures. This was seen as hard to implement at ....

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