Digital Assets

In Episode 9 of the Citi Digital Dispatch podcast series, Rhomaios Ram, Founder at Fnality, offers insights on the future of borderless networks and digital assets. Tune into the podcast to explore how these technologies are reshaping global commerce.

Often viewed as esoteric and offbeat, crypto assets were once eschewed by traditional capital market participants.

In a recent Citi Research report, a team led by decentralized-finance strategist Alex Saunders explores crypto’s 2025 prospects, examining key themes and offering views on a variety of metrics and market drivers, including the macro backdrop, portfolio allocation and what may lie ahead for regulation.

In Episode 8 of the Citi Digital Dispatch podcast series, Tom Zschach, Chief Innovation Officer at Swift, offers insights on borderless networks and digital assets. Tune into the podcast to explore how these technologies are reshaping global commerce.

Whether you are a believer or not, this paper takes an entertaining look at the real-time treasury evolution. It argues that companies will need to assemble a continuous chain of data, technology, connectivity, and service providers that can work synchronously in a real-time world. Learn more here.

In traditional finance, regulated financial firms and Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) use secure electronic messaging systems to exchange structured data. Coordination of financial transactions between firms is conducted through the messaging paradigm in which institution updates its own books and records based on messages from clients and counterparties. The development of blockchain technology presents the financial industry with an alternative paradigm based on ‘tokenization’. * The term state machine is a concept used in designing computer programs or digital logic. A state machine is any device storing the status of something at a given time. (Techopedia)

In a world hurtling toward a relentlessly connected digital economy, the expectations for how money functions are evolving.

We are joined by Mary Kate O’Hare, Head of Art Advisory, Citi, and Wendy Chang, Director of the Rennie Collection, to discuss the appeal of collecting art and the aesthetic and wealth creation benefits.

In Episode 7 of the Citi Digital Dispatch podcast series, Catherine Gu, Global Head of CBDC and Tokenization at Visa, offers her insights on financial networks and digital assets. Tune into the podcast to explore how these technologies are reshaping global commerce.