What Financial Services Leaders Need To Know About Tokenized Infrastructure

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Tokenizing assets, converting real-world holdings into blockchain-based digital tokens, promises to revolutionize financial services. But a growing chorus of fintech leaders warns that banks rushing to tokenize without overhauling their underlying payment systems will create a fragmented, inefficient mess. The core problem: legacy infrastructure can't handle the speed and volume that tokenization enables. Financial institutions must modernize their plumbing first, or risk building digital assets on a foundation of outdated rails.