The Road Towards Tokenization

With German Soto Sanchez

14 January 2026

Ian Simpson | 2 min read

The largest financial institutions in the world are moving towards tokenized markets. Banks, custodians and asset managers all have plans to revolutionize financial markets. Some are faster than others…

But how will it actually work? Are there some parts of the technology stack that are unsolved yet? How do we get beyond “tokenized wrappers” to true tokenized securities?

Host Ian Simpson sat down with Broadridge Financial’s Chief Product and Strategy Officer German Soto Sanchez to explore the results of Broadridge’s recent institutional survey and discuss all this – plus the company’s Tokenized Repo platform – and more.

 

Episode show notes:

3:08 – Who is Broadridge Financial?

5:21 – How does Broadridge power TradFi?

6:09 – Can TradFi systems be ready for tokenization?

8:35 – Pulling the worlds of TradFi and digital assets together

10:42 – The Broadridge institutional digital assets survey

17:02 – How big players like asset managers can expand their involvement in tokenized markets

21:28 – Linking digital asset market participants together

22:28 – How are wealth managers, asset managers, custodians preparing for what comes next?

25:51 – When big players like J.P. Morgan move into digital assets

26:47 – How intraday liquidity could change markets

29:04 – Unlocking new functionality with blockchain and tokens

32:49 – Democratization and increased financialization of markets

35:27 – Changing Broadridge systems to handle tokenization

37:07 – The three kinds of tokenization and the problem with tokenized stocks

40:23 – $300 billion on the tokenized repo platform of Broadridge

45:21 – Looking to the future

 

 

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