IMF Warns Tokenized Finance Risks Amplifying Market Crises Ahead

Moving Wall Street’s trading infrastructure onto blockchain-based systems could accelerate financial crises beyond regulators’ ability to respond, even as the technology promises to cut costs and eliminate settlement delays, the International Monetary Fund says. Tokenization — the act of representing assets like stocks, bonds and cash as digital tokens on shared ledgers — is a…

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Five Questions About Money to Ponder in 2026

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Stablecoins had their ChatGPT moment in 2025. Payment tokens that were until now used mostly by crypto traders are rare to go mainstream, and not just in the US, where they got regulatory blessing through the Genius Act. Yet just because they’ve pulled ahead, it’s hard to conclude that these 1:1 representation…

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