Holding over 60 trillion dollars in assets! State Street Bank announces: Launching tokenized fund services by the end of this year

State Street plans to launch tokenized fund services in Luxembourg by the end of this year, integrating digital and traditional assets into a unified institutional framework, with full lifecycle management handled by its platform.

State Street, the custodian giant with more than $60 trillion in assets, announced Tuesday that it expects to roll out “tokenized fund” services in Luxembourg before the end of this year—signaling that Wall Street is speeding up efforts to bring traditional fund infrastructure onto the blockchain.

According to an official statement, the service will be provided by State Street Investment Services to expand the bank’s capabilities in fund administration and asset custody.

Notably, State Street’s key highlight is its “dual-track approach.” They understand that tokenized assets cannot fully replace traditional funds overnight, so the main selling point of the new product is enabling seamless integration of tokenized funds and traditional financial instruments within the same institutional framework.

State Street said the new service will run through its digital asset platform, covering the “full lifecycle” of tokenized funds—from issuance and management to custody. More importantly, regardless of whether the fund structure is digital or traditional, clients can operate through a single interface and enjoy the same level of risk controls and compliance governance.

It is reported that State Street Global Advisors will become one of the first adopters of this system. Angus Fletcher, Global Head of Digital Asset Solutions at State Street, said, “This launch reflects our concrete progress in infrastructure development, successfully enabling digital assets and traditional assets to operate collaboratively within a unified institutional framework.”

As for why the first deployment site was chosen in Europe, State Street explained that Luxembourg has an extremely mature fund ecosystem and a well-developed legal framework capable of supporting a “digital native fund” structure.

However, how—or whether—this service will ultimately go live still depends on whether local regulators give the green light and on the readiness of internal systems.

Targeting the RWA Blue Ocean, Traditional Finance Accelerates Market Entry

As one of the world’s largest institutional financial services providers, as of the end of the first quarter of this year, State Street’s custody and administration assets under its umbrella totaled $54.5 trillion, while its asset management scale also reached $5.6 trillion.

State Street’s latest push is not entirely without precedent. The bank previously teamed up with Swiss digital asset firm Taurus to actively develop digital asset custody services; executives at State Street have also publicly stated that, over the coming years, institutional investors will continue to increase their exposure to digital assets.

In fact, the narrative of “asset tokenization” is sweeping through the global financial industry. Ark Invest and Standard Chartered both predict that the tokenized real-world assets (RWA) market will experience explosive growth over the next few years, soaring to the trillions of dollars. Among them, tokenized funds, U.S. Treasuries, and money market products will become the main engines driving this wave.

State Street’s latest move is precisely aimed at capturing this tokenization frenzy by laying groundwork for “market infrastructure” in advance.

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• Original title: Wall Street Custodian Giant Moves! State Street: Launching “Tokenized Fund” Service by End of Year
• Original author: Block Sister MEL