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- Tokenized dosh and collateral are zipping across borders like a wizard’s spell, but regulatory trolls are blocking the bridge. 🧙♂️🌉
- At SmartCon in the Big Apple, bigwigs from Citi, DTCC, and Taurus declared their tech is shinier than a dwarf’s axe, but the laws are as tangled as a goblin’s beard. 🗡️🧔
- Without a bit of legal harmony, we’re not just looking at delays-we’re staring down a fragmented farce of conflicting rules and systems that don’t play nice. 🤡⚔️
Tokenizing collateral and flinging it across borders faster than a witch’s broomstick is no longer just a pipe dream-it’s happening. But at a chinwag at the SmartCon shindig in New York, the suits from Citi, DTCC, and Taurus warned that while the tech’s ready to party, the regulators are still stuck in the Dark Ages. 🧙♀️🕰️
Ryan Rugg, the big cheese of digital assets at Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, boasted that their tokenized cash system is live in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dubbed Citi Token Services, it’s already shuffling billions in real deals, from supply chain payments to capital markets settlements. 🏦💼
“It’s not just for show-clients are using it like it’s going out of fashion, even on weekends and holidays!” Rugg chirped. “It’s quite the marvel, really.” 🌟📅
But expanding this wizardry beyond a few lucky corridors has been trickier than herding cats. Citi needs a thumbs-up from regulators in every nook and cranny, and the lack of legal harmony has put the brakes on. The dream, Rugg said, is a frictionless, multi-bank, multi-asset network-think email, but for money. But the rulebook’s still in the drafting phase. 📖🚧
Nadine Chakar, the digital assets guru at DTCC, chimed in. Their “Great Collateral Experiment” proved tokenized treasuries, equities, and money market funds could moonlight as collateral across time zones, even in crypto trades. But the real lesson? Tech’s not the bottleneck-it’s trust and legal red tape. 🔗⚖️
“We toss around ‘interoperability’ like it’s confetti,” Chakar quipped. “But does it actually work? Nah, not really.” 🎉❌
Part of the problem? Everyone’s built their own tokenization sandbox with different rules, legal hoops, and smart contract doodads. DTCC’s now buddying up with global clearinghouses and networks like SWIFT to hammer out common standards-not shared tech, but shared lingo and protocols. 🛠️🗣️
Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi urged U.S. bigwigs to take a leaf out of Switzerland’s book, where tokenized assets have national standards slicker than a greased pig. Without coordination, he warned, we’re looking at fragmentation, security holes you could drive a coach and horses through, and compliance headaches. 🇨🇭🚨
Looking ahead, the panel agreed progress will come in dribs and drabs. Short term, wallet-based systems could cozy up to traditional accounts. Long term, those wallets might just take over. But even if the tracks are laid, the train’s not leaving the station until the regulators catch up. 🚂🚦
“Digital assets never sleep-they’re like a vampire on Red Bull,” Chakar said. “But our laws? They’re as local as a village pub. The problem is, when you issue a token, it could end up anywhere.” 🧛♂️🌍
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2025-11-05 23:15