Brevan Howard Joins in on Institutional Push to Tokenize Funds

Brevan Howard plans to tokenize at least one of its funds through a partnership with a startup backed by Nomura’s Laser Digital, making it the latest financial heavyweight to experiment with putting money on blockchains.

Libre Capital, the startup which includes Laser Digital and the Alan Howard-backed incubator WebN Group as investors, said it will offer zero fees to asset managers who tokenize funds on its namesake platform. Brevan Howard, along with Hamilton Lane, said they’ll be the first asset managers to do so. Libre’s public blockchain technology is supported by Ethereum scaling firm Polygon.

“The tokenisation of funds allows ...