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Japan’s SBI Digital Markets, a subsidiary of SBI Group, is going to add a finer touch to Singapore’s ambitious digital asset landscape. The new pilot projects by this Japanese company will support the adoption and integration of tokenized securities into international markets under MAS’ “Project Guardian.”. This project is a strategic thrust by MAS to promote institutions’ interest in digital assets by exploring their potential usages in traditional financial services. Through this project, MAS is trying to establish the city-state as a centre of excellence in blockchain-driven finance using tokenization, making financial markets available and cost-effective. 
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SBIDM is currently collaborating with mainstream financial institutions to develop a cross-border framework that promotes smooth, frictionless cross-border trading of tokenized assets on regulated digital exchanges. It has collaborated with banks to establish more liquidity and less costly transactions and facilitate the process of operating under the digital financial ecosystem. Through cooperation, SBIDM and its collaborators expect to establish a common, effective digital marketplace to match MAS’s long-term vision of integrating digital assets into traditional financial systems. It says a lot about how partnerships between traditional financial institutions and innovators in blockchain can set up a digitally interconnected finance ecosystem across the globe. 
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<h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []" id="strong-sbidm-s-collaboration-with-ubs-in-asset-and-wealth-management-strong">SBIDM’s Collaboration with UBS in Asset and Wealth Management</h2> 
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Japan’s SBIDM has collaborated with UBS Asset Management in a pilot that delves deep into tokenized money market funds. Under Project Guardian, this means a big milestone was achieved because blockchain-powered automation was used to make the subscription and redemption processes of funds simpler. Using the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol by Chainlink, smart contracts can thereby automate internal interactions with the fund and hence reduce operation costs, further improving the efficiency of the process. This might just become the solution that could revolutionize the $63 trillion mutual fund industry, as it really brings in those blockchain-driven efficiencies that will raise the bar for asset and wealth management. 
The UBS pilot harnesses the prior technical advances under Project Guardian and shows how the use of blockchain technology can be better utilized to improve conventional financial products. Both the Japan’s SBIDM and UBS want to cut much friction in investment with automation in various areas in the management of funds so as to make life much easier for investors. Blockchain adoption in asset management epitomizes digital assets’ behalf by decreasing the cost of operation associated with the administration of funds and increasing accessibility to a broader investor market. 
<h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []" id="strong-fixed-income-pilot-for-tokenized-asset-backed-securities-strong">Fixed Income Pilot for Tokenized Asset-Backed Securities</h2> 
Key contributions by Japan’s SBIDM to Project Guardian include the Fixed Income pilot program, which develops an international network to achieve settlement and distribution of tokenized asset-backed securities. It should support initial issuance and enable efficient secondary trading for seamless global transaction processing. Using blockchain technology, the SBIDM tries to develop more secure, transparent, and, last but not least, cheaper solutions of trading tokenized assets. This can be the conceptual starting point for a completely new financial services model. This solution is essential for the company’s announcement of modern finance infrastructure. 
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This fixed-income pilot demonstrates Japan’s SBIDM’s commitment to innovating products and services for the evolving needs of global investors. In doing so, it contributes toward developing a scalable framework for main market tokenized asset-backed securities that will further enable mainstream adoption of blockchain technology in traditional finance. The <a href="https://sbidm.com/press-releases/sbidm-commercial-adoption-for-project-guardian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">pilot</a> also showed how increased access to diverse investment opportunities through tokenization might change the face of global finance. With these tokenized products being increasingly adopted, they could offer a new entry for investors and further bridge digital finance with more conventional financial systems. 
<h2 id="strong-expanding-product-offerings-with-structured-notes-strong">Expanding Product Offerings with Structured Notes</h2> 
In addition to fixed-income securities, Japan’s SBIDM is planning to issue its first structured note collateralized by luxury wine assets, and the offering will be followed by a host of other products connected with intellectual property and commodities. Such products signify a great extension of tokenized assets for investors in search of something different and new. SBIDM also aims to attract a broad range of investors- from the most conservative to those new to blockchain-based finance- with the appearance of these securities, both in their traditional and digital form. Structured notes with luxury assets make their first appearance in a unique combination that will attract those investors who diversify across non-traditional asset classes. 
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