IMF: Tokenization May Reshape Settlement and Strengthen Stability
The International Monetary Fund has issued one of its most direct endorsements yet of tokenization’s potential to reshape traditional finance, arguing that moving assets, settlement, and recordkeeping onto shared ledgers could dramatically shorten today’s typically multi-day sett...
➤ The IMF endorses tokenization for reshaping finance, potentially shortening settlement cycles through shared ledgers. ➤ However, the IMF warns of risk migration from intermediaries to underlying infrastructure and highlights the need for common standards to prevent market fragmentation. ➤ Regulators are adapting existing laws, and the pace of industry standards and interoperability efforts will determine tokenization's success.