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The Gold Stays in the Vault. The Rights Move: Why Tokenised Commodities Need an Asset Passport

The UK Financial Conduct Authority is exploring whether tokenised gold can improve how bullion is traded, transferred, pledged and held, with wholesale collateral identified as a particularly important use case. The consultation exposes a deeper infrastructure problem: the token is not the gold. A serious institutional record must connect the physical bullion, vault and custodian, legal ownership, digital representation, redemption rights, encumbrances, transfers and collateral state....

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The Token Cannot Have Its Own Reality: What the SEC’s New Stock Rules Reveal About Asset Identity

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has created a five-year conditional exemption allowing limited on-chain trading of tokenised NMS stocks on Tokenized Securities Venues. The conditions make the underlying infrastructure lesson unusually explicit: a tokenised stock must provide the same rights and privileges as the equivalent traditional share, issuers can object to unaffiliated third-party tokenisation, smart contracts must be public and auditable, and trading in the tokenised stock...

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The Invoice Exists. The Receivable May Not: What Radiant World Reveals About Trade-Finance Asset Identity

The widening Radiant World disputes show why an invoice is not enough to establish a financeable receivable. In one Singapore lawsuit, Incomlend alleges that it advanced $31.7 million against two Glencore invoices with a combined face value above $34 million, only to be told later that the invoices had already been paid and that the underlying contracts were not genuine. Separately, a Jefferies-linked fund has obtained a London freezing order of up to $499 million against Radiant World, its...

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When the Collateral Is Compute: What a GPU-Backed Loan Actually Owns

GPU-backed private credit is developing into a distinct form of equipment and infrastructure finance. Bullish provided USD.AI with a $100 million stablecoin-based facility in August 2026 to support loans secured by high-performance computing assets, while USD.AI reported more than $281 million of lifetime deployed capital across GPU financings by month-end. The challenge is that the collateral is mobile, rapidly depreciating, technically specialised and economically dependent on data-centre...

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What Is an Asset Passport?

A practical explanation of how an Asset Passport turns scattered documents and key facts into a structured, review-ready overview.

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