State Street managing director Jay Biancamano oversees tokenization and blockchain products at the firm.

For six years, Biancamano has been creating pathways toward the world of cryptocurrencies, digital assets, blockchain, and distributed ledger technology.

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State Street has increased its investment in the crypto market in the last few months versus the first few years that Biancamano was at the firm. And State Street is planning to increase options to invest in crypto by the end of 2023 as investors remain crypto-curious despite the FTX meltdown.

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The excitement around crypto is reflected in an EY-Parthenon (global strategy consulting arm within Ernst & Young) survey from September: institutional investors are likely to allocate 5.6% of their portfolios to tokenized assets by 2026, the results showed.

The survey was conducted on 251 accredited/high net worth investors and 78 institutional asset investors in the U.S. in May 2023.

A webinar on Tokenization of Real-World Assets, with the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance on Sep. 7, saw participation from Biancamano. The Fordham Gabelli School of Business alum, who also holds a patent for Actionable Contextualized Alerts in his name, said that putting assets on a blockchain validates ownership and transfer value, reducing friction in the market.

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While he agrees that liquidity was a challenge, the ecosystem of issuers, investors, and centralized venues should be developed as clients can trade, borrow, and lend assets like in the traditional world.

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