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Why financial services is being transformed by asset tokenization

What they are, why they matter and how to get started.

What you will learn

Everything you need to know about asset tokenization in financial services, covering:

What is asset
tokenization?

Asset tokenization is the process of representing the ownership of assets (of any kind) as digital tokens on a blockchain.

How big is the potential impact?

Ultimately, it makes it possible to trade anything with complete transparency.

Why is it such a big deal in financial services?

By coding everything into the blockchain, tokenization abstracts the whole trading process from the underlying complexity and eliminates much of the resultant pain and waste.

Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the internet itself.

Abigail Johnson, CEO, Fidelity Investments