Federated Hermes, which manages about $911 billion, plans to issue its first fund shares directly onchain. CoinDesk reported an early-2027 target, with Prometheum's broker-dealers providing custody, clearing and settlement.
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- Builder 27%
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Visa signed a cooperation memorandum with Abu Dhabi's ADI Foundation to study blockchain payments, without naming a chain, stablecoin, product or launch date. Until a settlement asset and a date appear, the pact gives Visa a regional position for the stablecoin settlement work it has been testing with Lloyds and in South Korea.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
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Lloyds polled 100 senior UK finance decision-makers and 60% named faster settlement as tokenization's biggest opportunity, ahead of collateral at 41%. The poll points to a payoff counted in freed liquidity, and the banks' first sizeable test comes with bond issues planned for early 2027.
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Lloyds settled $750,000 of cross-border dollar obligations with Visa in USDC over a seven-day pilot, and the funds landed in under an hour even at weekends. The pilot moved settlement between two regulated institutions onto a rail that runs around the clock, but at too small a size to show what it costs.
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AMC's Aron demands Robinhood halt stock tokens tracking 190-plus companies without issuer consent
Robinhood's Stock Tokens are Jersey-issued debt that pays a share's price and none of its rights, which is why its chief legal officer, an SEC commissioner until 2015, says it will not stop, and why AMC's route to Washington looks narrow.
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- Adoption35
- Hype gap+25
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- Confidence55