Franklin Templeton and BNP Paribas executives say tokenised assets and stablecoins could improve capital efficiency and liquidity across Europe’s financial markets as institutional adoption of blockchain technology accelerates.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the WAIB Summit 2026 in Monaco, representatives from both firms outlined how tokenisation could streamline settlement processes, improve collateral mobility and support more efficient cross-border financial activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cTokenisation offers institutions more optionality and flexibility,\u201d <\/p>\n
Said Franklin Templeton head of digital assets partnership development Rafael Mastroberardino.<\/p>\n
BNP Paribas CIB head of tokenisation platform Julien Clausse said blockchain networks could unlock new institutional use cases by enabling multiple asset types to interact on the same infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The comments come as major financial institutions increasingly explore tokenised products and blockchain-based settlement systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce friction in capital markets.<\/p>\n
Several major US banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are reportedly working on a tokenised deposit network targeted for launch in the first half of 2027.<\/p>\n
Wall Street’s tokenisation push has also expanded into public markets, with Nasdaq receiving approval for a pilot programme involving tokenised securities and the New York Stock Exchange partnering with Securitize to develop blockchain-based trading infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Institutional interest continues to attract significant capital, with Digital Asset recently raising $355 million to expand its Canton Network platform, which has already been piloted by financial institutions including BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, Standard Chartered and Deutsche B\u00f6rse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franklin Templeton and BNP Paribas executives say tokenised assets and stablecoins could improve capital efficiency and liquidity across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12875],"tags":[17262,12883,24551,10842,24550],"class_list":["post-34546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bnp-paribas","tag-bnp","tag-bnp-paribas","tag-eu-markets","tag-franklin","tag-tokenisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}