During today’s CityWeek conference, the major UK asset manager abrdn shared its views on tokenization. Russell Barlow, Global Head of Alternatives, said the key benefits for a fund manager are access to assets that it might not otherwise be able to own or to invest in the same assets but in a cheaper or more liquid form.
Last year abrdn joined the governing council of the Hedera public distributed ledger (DLT). Barlow observed that it uses the “Hashgraph consensus technology to validate. And we’re using that for our operations to allow us to generate internal efficiencies.”
He separately mentioned that one of the general areas being explored is the right way to connect DLT to the current operating infrastructure.
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