The landmark research shows 77% of live bank users experiencing workflow improvements even as project costs reach US$7.9m on average.
Institutional capital markets have moved beyond isolated experimentation into a decisive phase of live execution, with distributed ledger technology (DLT) budgets growing at three times the pace of broader securities operations spend, according to a benchmark research paper published on 31 August by The ValueExchange and the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) titled ‘DLT in the real world 2026.’ The paper argued that 27% of firms planned to pledge tokenised securi