Tokenisation is moving beyond industry hype and becoming a core component of financial market infrastructure.

Institutional participation, regulatory progress and new structured investment strategies, panellists are driving the next phase of growth in the decentralised finance (Defi) space, said representatives during the ‘Digital Assets, Tokenization & Structured Exposure’ panel at SRP APAC 2026. Andy Ng, head of APAC iShares equity product strategy at BlackRock, said institutional investors are increasingly using exchange-traded products (ETPs) as the gateway into digital assets, with