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Will tokenisation deliver efficiency? And what kind?

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  • Milkau, Udo

    (Digital Counsellor, Germany)

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This paper attempts to provide a careful and balanced look at some of the benefits and challenges of tokenisation of securities. A fundamental problem is the lack of consistency in how ‘tokenisation’ should be defined. According to a report by McKinsey & Company in 2023, ‘Tokenization adoption was poised for success six years ago, but progress was limited … the path could be different this time’. In the past, tokenisation was: (1) limited to a process of creating a representation of financial, intellectual or physical assets on a blockchain (ie distributed ledger technology [DLT]); and (2) discussed as a narrative of disintermediation and programmability as a basis for efficiency gains. As it became clear that DLT, with its basic game-theoretical approach, comes with high costs and opaque governance, traditional platforms with high efficiency such as the European TARGET2-Security (T2S) with atomic settlement and delivery-versus-payment (DvP) show up as blueprints for efficiency. A proposal of the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) for a unified ledger, Project Guardian of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), both in 2023, and an announcement of the U.S. Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in 2024 about ‘settlement on a common regulated venue … [of] tokenized assets’ can be regarded as paradigms for a new and pragmatic approach, with coordination and synchronisation as key objectives in the context of financial market infrastructures.

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  • Milkau, Udo, 2024. "Will tokenisation deliver efficiency? And what kind?," Journal of Securities Operations & Custody, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 17(1), pages 79-94, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:aza:jsoc00:y:2024:v:17:i:1:p:79-94
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    Keywords

    tokenisation; distributed ledger technology; platforms; operational efficiency; synchronisation;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Business and Securities Law

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