Institutional Digital Assets

Digital assets have moved from a predominantly retail and experimental environment into the strategic agendas of banks, asset managers, investment funds, payment firms and large companies. For institutions, however, adoption is not simply a question of acquiring technology or completing a blockchain transaction.
Institutional Digital Assets explains how professional organisations can evaluate and use digital assets while preserving legal certainty, financial integrity, operational resilience and accountable governance.
The book examines institutional market infrastructure, custody models, key management, transaction controls, tokenisation, trading, settlement and liquidity. It also addresses risk-management frameworks, financial-crime controls, valuation, accounting, reporting and due diligence on service providers and protocols.
Readers are guided from the initial business case to the construction of an institutional operating model and implementation roadmap. Applied scenarios, decision checklists, a readiness laboratory, a provider due-diligence worksheet, a governance checklist and an institutional risk register convert the concepts into practical evaluation tools.
Written for financial professionals, corporate decision-makers, risk and compliance teams, investors and students, this volume provides a disciplined framework for deciding whether an institutional digital-asset initiative is purposeful, controllable and ready to proceed.
The concluding volume of the Digital Finance Education — Foundation Series, it connects technology, finance, governance and risk into a coherent institutional decision framework.