
16 May 2025
A New Giovannini Moment for European Capital Markets?
Tokenovate’s Response to the Draghi Report and the European Commission’s Savings and Investments Union Proposal. Earlier this year, Richard Baker, Founder and CEO of Tokenovate, and Ciarán McGonagle, Chief Legal & Product Officer, met with senior members of the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) in Brussels. Over…
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1 May 2025
From Mirror to Engine: Operationalising CDM
Understanding How the Common Domain Model Enables Post-Trade Automation If you’ve spent any time in capital markets or post-trade infrastructure, chances are you’ve heard of the Common Domain Model (CDM). It’s one of those industry standards that gets mentioned in white papers, working groups, and strategy decks. But what does it actually do, and…
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15 April 2025
Tokenovate’s DIGIT response
Modernising capital markets Tokenovate is pleased to have submitted its formal response to the UK Government’s Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) Pilot. This timely and important project aims to enable the Government to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be applied across the lifecycle of the UK sovereign debt issuance process, and catalyse the…
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13 March 2025
Launch of the Living Lab
The Living Lab is an interactive workshop project created by Tokenovate in collaboration with The Investment Association and ISDA. The goal of the Living Lab is to demonstrate the benefits and opportunities of using FINOS Common Domain Model and Blockchain. Attendees received a hands-on experience of using public blockchains versus private blockchains, and understand the…
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10 February 2025
Operationalising CDM – Part IV
This blog is the fourth and final entry in our series exploring how Tokenovate is operationalising the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM). In this entry, Steve Haigh, Chief Technology Officer at Tokenovate, examines the technological implementation of CDM within our platform, explaining how CDM - through interoperability - can help deliver automation, transparency, and efficiency…
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3 February 2025
Operationalising CDM – Part III
This blog is the third in a series exploring how Tokenovate is operationalising the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM). In this entry, Ciarán McGonagle, Chief Legal & Product Officer at Tokenovate, explores the legal foundation of our platform and how Tokenovate is building on the foundational work of ISDA which, when integrated with CDM, allows…
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