Blockchain and the Evolution of Alternative Investments: A Digital Transformation Imperative Alternative Investment operational processes are directly at odds with the industry’s trajectory for digital transformation and operational efficiency. Laden with challenges, lack of standardization, paper-based manual processes, scalability constraints and aged legacy systems, it is time, in our digital age of advancing technology, to re-imagine the value chain and address these operational pain points. Driven by growing interest in alternatives assets, investor appetites for transparency into those assets, the industry’s need for capital, and pressure on operations to improve margins, an urgency to address these issues has opened the door for disruptive technologies to provide a solution, particularly blockchain. Blockchain purports instantaneous settlement, access to funds intermediaries, and notably, the digitization, or tokenization, of real assets: equities, debt, and alternatives. Debt and equity markets have identified opportunities for greater automation, in large part due to incentives and penalties created by more extensive regulation. This leaves the alternatives market the most to gain from blockchain solutions and the tokenization of assets. As interest in tokenization intensifies, so does optimism that blockchain will be the transformative answer to processing and handling alternative assets. It is a natural fit that digital […]
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