Roger Bayston
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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And that's because there's so many assets or investment opportunities that exist in things like small businesses which don't have
public securities or, you know, don't have a fungible security representation that can pass between two investors.
But it felt like that this is what was going to happen, that this type of technology and others like AI, quite frankly, were going to begin to unpack a broader array of assets that could be brought into
um investors' portfolios.
And those could be small individual investors or they could be large institutional investors.
But this was the great promise.
And you know, having spent, you know, my my career um in asset management, these are the things that I'm super attentive to do.
If there's the possibilities that we can create better outcomes
Because we expand opportunity sets, not just keep increasing risk, but expanding the type of investable opportunities with technology, then that's everything I'm supposed to be doing as a as a job.
Well, we've seen a big trajectory, you know, move upwards because we've seen some practical application.
Franklin Templeton's Benji suite of tokenized money fund products speaks to taking something that is
historically been one of the most boring things on planet Earth, a US government money fund.
And by putting it exclusively on blockchain rails, I mean that I think that is a differentiation that we have done at Franklin Templeton, you see a lot of projects where
Um legacy record keeping systems are are make are staying attacked and then there's this like shadow record keeping thing that's happening um on blockchain.
But when you actually get on on chain and you're actually, you know
using the composability features of the blockchain, you can unpack a couple of different things.
In th in this again, most boring thing on planet Earth, the government money fund.
Um with Benji now on those rails.
We've been able to deliver two super interesting features.
One, I can transfer you Penji and as soon as I transfer it to you, you own it.
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