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By Arnd HEßELER, Julian SCHMEING, Philipp KERBER and George STYLIANOU, zeb consulting*
Asset tokenization has the potential to permanently change the securities business. The entire capital markets value chain can be enhanced by optimizing trading, custody and settlement using asset tokenization and end-to-end processing via distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Furthermore, tokenization gives investors access to illiquid assets that previously could only be acquired by investing large amounts of capital. Therefore, it is expected that by 2030, 5% to 10% of all assets will be represented by tokens and the global market volume of tokens will reach a value of about USD 19.5 trillion. But what exactly does tokenization mean and how can banks...
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