Tokenised Funds: Ruth Fairclough on Ireland’s Opportunity to Lead

As global asset managers increasingly explore and launch tokenised fund products and share classes, Ireland is well positioned to build on its strengths as one of the world’s leading investment fund domiciles and Europe’s largest domicile for regulated money market funds.

In a new opinion piece published in the Irish Independent, Ruth Fairclough, Digital Assets Lead at Irish Funds, examines what the growing adoption of tokenisation could mean for Ireland’s funds industry and the importance of developing the infrastructure, policy and regulatory environment needed to support this evolution.

Tokenisation is moving from concept to practical application across global financial markets, with the potential to improve efficiency and transparency, while transforming how regulated assets are issued, transferred and settled.

Realising this potential will require financial market infrastructure, policy and regulation to evolve alongside innovation. Providing the necessary clarity and certainty will be critical to supporting the development of the next generation of regulated investment products and maintaining Ireland’s competitiveness as a leading funds domicile.