Tokenization: The future of financial markets?

Tokenization creates also new opportunities, as fractionalization of assets, boosts access to new markets. Adoption: Still being in its nascent stage, tokenization is expected to take time to catch on; it would take convincing the many retail investors and significant investments in the new technology.

Tokenization isn’t without its challenges though. There are significant hurdles that need to be addressed from investors to issuers:

1. Regulatory framework:

With no normal industry guidelines or homogenous administrative structures set up, the reception of tokenization, fundamentally a model that works as per a typical worldwide norm, becomes tricky.

2. Cyber security:

Several factors, including the combination of a centralized and decentralized location, make setting up proper cyber security measures a challenge.

3. Scalability:

Endorsement and encryption times into the different squares of the chain take a lot of time, making versatility a significant bottleneck to be additionally tended to.

4. Adoption:

As yet being in its incipient stage, tokenization is relied upon to invest in some opportunity to get on; it would take persuading the many retail financial backers and huge interests in the innovation.

However, tokenization has the potential to mitigate the complexities and inefficiencies associated with the current post-trade process. For example, the secured interlinkage of financial institutions and traders through blockchain could potentially eliminate the need for the clearing process and considerably shorten settlement times.

What the future looks like:

To determine the impact of tokenization in specific cases, we recommend a four-step approach that includes

1. Evaluating the implications of tokenization on the business model

2. Defining a target vision for each business line and core activity related to it

3. Developing a capabilities roadmap, and

4. Designing the modus operandi

Tokenization offers the potential to “open up” private markets, unlocking the full potential in illiquid, relatively high-performing asset classes through enhanced market access and wider distribution. By tokenizing hard-to-access asset classes, the industry could potentially improve settlement efficiency, as well as enable new liquidity through tokenized and fractionalized trading in DLT-enabled primary and secondary markets.

Tokenization also offers the potential for more efficiency by removing intermediaries from the settlement processes and therefore, greatly reducing the logistical challenges involved in the creation, purchase, and sale of securities. Exchanges, trading, clearing, and settlement are now possible in seconds thanks to atomic swaps of tokenized assets across multiple decentralized platforms. Smart contracts allow issuers to program the sequence contingent processing steps in a contract, which eliminates counterparty risk and reconciliation costs of complex financial instruments. Financial service providers are envisioning the possibility of automating consolidated reporting and compliance, custody, and asset servicing.

  

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