华尔街金融服务公司 Lazard 计划与 Bitfinex 证券创建代币化基金

传统金融产品的代币化是数字资产行业中一个蓬勃发展的领域，贝莱德、汇丰银行以及现在的拉扎德等全球公司都进入了该领域。

Wall Street financial services firm Lazard is planning to create tokenized funds with Bitfinex Securities and SkyBridge Invest, according to a Friday announcement.

根据周五的公告，华尔街金融服务公司 Lazard 计划与 Bitfinex Securities 和 SkyBridge Invest 合作创建代币化基金。

The tokenized funds will be set up and issued under Kazakhstan's financial services law, under regulatory oversight of Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA), where SkyBridge and Bitfinex are licensed to operate. Bitfinex Securities will be responsible for the tokenization process, while SkyBridge will act as broker and manager of the tokenized fund. The products will be available to retail users, but with certain geographic limitations, and available to be purchased with Tether's stablecoin (USDT).

这些代币化基金将根据哈萨克斯坦的金融服务法设立和发行，并接受阿斯塔纳金融服务管理局（AFSA）的监管，SkyBridge 和 Bitfinex 均获得该管理局的运营许可。 Bitfinex 证券将负责代币化过程，而 SkyBridge 将充当代币化基金的经纪人和管理者。这些产品将向零售用户开放，但有一定的地域限制，并且可以通过 Tether 的稳定币（USDT）购买。

Representatives of the companies involved signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) toward creating the tokenized funds on Friday in Lugano, Switzerland at a side event during the Plan B conference.

周五，在瑞士卢加诺的 Plan B 会议期间的一次会外活动中，相关公司的代表签署了一份关于创建代币化基金的谅解备忘录 (MoU)。

The vehicle will offer exposure in a "fund of funds" structure to various existing Lazard-managed funds focused on global equities and emerging market equities, which have been available only to professional investors and institutions before, Matthias Kruse, managing director at Lazard, told CoinDesk.

Lazard 董事总经理马蒂亚斯·克鲁斯 (Matthias Kruse) 表示，该工具将以“基金中的基金”结构向 Lazard 管理的各种现有基金提供投资机会，这些基金专注于全球股票和新兴市场股票，而此前这些基金只向专业投资者和机构开放。 CoinDesk。

"We are a B2B [business-to-business] investment firm, and this is a good way for us to service retail investors," Kruse said. Kruse also touted tokenization as a process that improves efficiency, liquidity and helps lower operational costs.

“我们是一家 B2B（企业对企业）投资公司，这是我们服务散户投资者的好方法，”克鲁斯说。克鲁斯还称赞代币化是一种提高效率、流动性并有助于降低运营成本的过程。

Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is a rapidly growing sector in the intersection of digital assets and traditional finance that involves placing assets such as bonds, credit and funds on blockchain rails. Participants do so in pursuit of faster settlements and increased efficiency compared to traditional financial plumbing.

现实世界资产的代币化（RWA）是数字资产和传统金融交叉领域中一个快速增长的领域，涉及将债券、信贷和基金等资产置于区块链轨道上。与传统的金融管道相比，参与者这样做是为了追求更快的结算和更高的效率。

The tokenization trend came to the forefront this year with global banks and asset managers, including BlackRock, HSBC starting offering tokenized products. The RWA market is poised to become a multi-trillion dollar market over the coming years, according to McKinsey, BCG, 21Shares and Bernstein.

今年，代币化趋势成为最前沿，包括贝莱德、汇丰银行在内的全球银行和资产管理公司开始提供代币化产品。麦肯锡、BCG、21Shares 和 Bernstein 表示，RWA 市场有望在未来几年成为一个价值数万亿美元的市场。

Lazard's asset management business has $245 billion of assets under management (AUM). SkyBridge Invest is a Kazakhstan-based investment services firm, different from SkyBridge Capital of veteran Wall Street hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci. Bitfinex Securities is a licensed trading venue in El Salvador and Kazakhstan. Bitfinex Securities is the tokenization platform arm of crypto trading venue Bitfinex.

Lazard 的资产管理业务管理资产 (AUM) 达 2,450 亿美元。 SkyBridge Invest是一家总部位于哈萨克斯坦的投资服务公司，与华尔街资深对冲基金家安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇(Anthony Scaramucci)旗下的SkyBridge Capital不同。 Bitfinex 证券是萨尔瓦多和哈萨克斯坦的许可交易场所。 Bitfinex 证券是加密货币交易场所 Bitfinex 的代币化平台部门。