The Emergence of Tokenized Investment Funds and Their Use Cases

Pablo Azar, Francesca Carapella, Jp Perez-Sangimino, Nathan Swem and Alexandros Vardoulakis
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Alexandros Vardoulakis: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/alexandros-vardoulakis.htm

No 20250924a, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: A blockchain is a distributed database where independent computers across the world maintain identical copies of a transaction record, updating it only when the network reaches consensus on new transactions—making the history transparent and extraordinarily difficult to alter. Historically, bonds have traded almost entirely in over-the-counter (OTC) markets, while equities and money market fund shares have largely settled through centralized infrastructures such as stock exchanges and central securities depositories. In both settings, each institution maintains its own records, and post-trade steps like confirmation, clearing, and settlement require multiple intermediaries and repeated reconciliation.

Keywords: tokenized money; market funds; financial stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 G0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-09-24
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DOI: 10.59576/lse.20250924a

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