About
Research from people who have run the plumbing.
TokenResearch is an O’PTCHA research initiative. It explains how tokenisation changes post-trade and collateral, in business and technology, for practitioners and investors in the Americas, UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Why TokenResearch
Most writing on tokenisation is either strong on technology and light on how margin, settlement and default management actually run, or strong on strategy and light on what has to be built. Post-trade teams need both.
TokenResearch covers six areas: collateral and margin, settlement and the cash leg, clearing and netting, operating model and change, DeFi meeting institutional finance, and regulation. Each is read through a business lens and a technology lens.
How we work
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Business and technology together
Every topic states what changes for the business and what has to be built. That pairing is the point of TokenResearch.
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Primary sources
Factual claims cite public, primary sources: regulators, central banks, market infrastructures and issuers. Numbers carry a source and a date.
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No recommendations
We publish no price views, return forecasts, ratings or buy/sell language. Mentions of firms or products are not endorsements.
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Independent agenda
The editor sets the agenda, method and conclusions. Partners and programme participants may comment on drafts but do not approve conclusions.
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Disclosure
Where the editor or O’PTCHA has a relevant involvement in a topic, the piece says so. We do not use information received in confidence.
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AI-assisted, human-edited
We use AI for monitoring, summarising, drafting and fact-check support. Every publication is edited and approved by a human editor.