Diving Into the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform

On Ep. 7 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Catherine Gu, Head of CBDC and Tokenized Assets @ Visa and Francisco Maroto, Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets @ BBVA to discuss the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), BBVA's tokenization journey and the momentum of tokenization.

Timestamps:

• 01:50 Introducing the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP)
• 07:02 BBVA's tokenization journey
• 18:45 What are the possibilities of VTAP?
• 21:55 Why is VTAP compelling from BBVA's perspective?
• 26:14 Payments, financing & cross border money movement
• 33:34 New Swift tokenized asset & deposit capabilities
• 40:01 The momentum of tokenization
• 43:38 Smart contracts & innovation

This episode is brought to you by Visa

A world leader in digital payments, Visa is bridging the gap between traditional financial institutions and innovative blockchain networks, helping players in the payments ecosystem navigate the ever-evolving world of tokenized fiat currencies with confidence and ease. Learn more at visa.com/crypto

Visa’s Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) uses smart contracts and cryptography to help banks bring fiat currencies onchain. VTAP allows financial institutions to issue fiat-backed tokens, improving financial efficiency and enabling programmable finance. Express interest in VTAP at globalclient.visa.com/vtap

This podcast is also supported by Digital Asset.

Digital Asset is excited to launch the Canton Network, a proven, trusted, and scaleable service that provides interoperability between institutional-grade tokenization platforms. The Global Synchronizer is now live, managed by Linux and institutions are actively using Canton Coin to manage the governance. No, the banks haven’t launched a token in the classic sense, this is much more interesting. They’ve done it to make all token networks interoperable. Find out more at canton.network