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What Turns a Gold Token Into a Fund

Sep 22, 2026

What Turns a Gold Token Into a Fund

In May the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England asked the market what it wanted from tokenization in UK wholesale finance. By September they had 123 responses.

W3 Wealth

Sep 16, 2026

Wealth management for money that moves itself

Your clients are asking about digital assets, and they mean it. Stablecoin yield, tokenized treasuries, Bitcoin. They read about it, some already hold it, and they want their adviser to have a view.

The statement arrives after the money

Sep 10, 2026

The Statement Arrives After the Money

For most of the history of wealth management, the advisor could do more with a client's money than the client could. The assets sat with a custodian the firm chose, trades went through a desk the firm controlled, and a client who wanted to move a large sum made a call, signed something and waited for the firm to act on it. The client's reach ended at the phone.

Idle by Permission

Sep 1, 2026

Idle by Permission

A bank that needs to pay in a currency it doesn't hold generally keeps a balance at a bank in that currency's home market. The account is called a nostro. It earns almost nothing, but sits there anyway, because the alternative is telling a customer the wire will take a week.

The Fifth Capability

Aug 27, 2026

The Fifth Capability

If you are scoping an agent payments build this quarter, you already have a list. Identity for the agent. Authorization rules and spending limits. A settlement rail, probably more than one. A line near the bottom for monitoring.

When money moves faster than anyone can watch

Aug 18, 2026

When money moves faster than anyone can watch

Most people are surprised to learn that I was an accounting major in college. I even started my career auditing large hedge funds, which is exactly as glamorous as it sounds. It taught me one thing I still use every day. Somebody hands you a number, and your job is to find out whether the thing behind it actually happened.

Reconciliation is the real blocker

Aug 13, 2026

Reconciliation is the real blocker

On July 8, Amplify launched a custody platform for independent RIAs, built with Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions. Its chief executive named three things the platform was built to be capable of delivering. Same-day accounts. Real-time data. No reconciliation.

The Record is The Product

Aug 10, 2026

The Record is The Product

The exchange-traded fund is the most successful wrapper in modern finance. It made diversified portfolios tradable in a single ticker, and it has been digital from the investor's seat for more than three decades.

Should Everything Go On-Chain

Aug 5, 2026

Should Everything Go On-Chain?

Money has started to move without waiting for people. Autonomous and AI-agent systems now originate, evaluate and route capital continuously, and the records meant to account for that movement still arrive weeks after the fact, assembled by hand. Anyone responsible for that capital is operating in the gap between what happened and what they can see.

Verifiable Capital in The 21st Century

Aug 3, 2026

Verifiable Capital in The 21st Century

Private credit operates on a specific accountability structure.

The New Stablecoin Savings Account

Jul 22, 2026

Stablecoins Are Coming For The Savings Account

Most dollars aren't paper. They're ledger entries in bank databases. When someone deposits a paycheck, no cash moves. A number changes in one column and a number changes in another.

When Capital Outruns Information

Jul 2, 2026

When Capital Outruns Information

Information velocity is the rate at which material facts about a credit position reach the market pricing it. In public markets, the velocity is high. A bond trades, a price prints, the market sees it within seconds. In private credit, it's structurally lower. Loans are marked quarterly. The market's information about any given position is, by design, lagged.

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