Digital Asset Post-Trade for Tokenised & Traditional Markets

Tokenised & digital assets

Two worlds.
One operations team.

Tokenised securities are arriving in production while equities still settle T+1. Most firms answer with a second team, a second platform and manual handoffs between them, and the seams become the largest source of operational risk in the business. NOVA CMX runs tokenised and traditional assets through one position of record, one exception queue, one reporting model.

Why the timing matters

35-65%

post-trade cost reduction once tokenised settlement reaches scale

WEF & Accenture, May 2025

40+

institutions now in MAS Project Guardian, with live use cases

MAS · industry reporting

24/7

market hours and wallet-based custody, against end-of-day books

Operating reality

1 model

for consolidated risk and reporting across all asset classes, now a supervisory expectation

APAC & EU regulators

The board-level choice

Digital assets must not create digital silos.

Separating the digital book feels like prudent risk management. In practice it creates a parallel universe of breaks: on-chain positions invisible to core risk systems until someone reconciles them by hand, smart-contract coupons that hit the wallet before the corporate actions team sees the event, and a client statement that cannot show both worlds at once.

The firms getting this right did not build the best crypto desk. They extended the operating framework they already had, and treated digital assets as a first-class asset type from day one.

Where the hybrid model breaks

Reconciliation is where tokenisation meets reality.

Position matching

On-chain balance, off-chain book

Fragmentation

Assets sit on several chains

Corporate actions

The smart contract pays first

Timing

Atomic settlement, batch books

Reporting

Two reports, stitched together

Scale

Manual workarounds feel fine at low volume

What NOVA CMX automates

Unified does not mean identical. It means one framework.

Settlement & clearing

Smart-contract clearing and settlement for tokenised instruments, near real time.

Reconciliation & exceptions

On-chain and off-chain records matched automatically across ledgers and participants.

Positions, reporting & control

Immutable audit trail and consolidated regulatory reporting from one data model.

Multi-ledger interoperability through one API layer, so you are not locked to a chain.

Smart-contract-initiated events recognised and processed, not discovered.

One client statement covering tokenised and traditional holdings.

Conventional and atomic paths for the same underlying asset, by counterparty.

One exception queue whether the break came from a SWIFT message or a wallet.

A single position layer for all long and short exposure, however it settles.

Settlement & clearing

Smart-contract clearing and settlement for tokenised instruments, near real time.

Conventional and atomic paths for the same underlying asset, by counterparty.

Multi-ledger interoperability through one API layer, so you are not locked to a chain.

Reconciliation & exceptions

On-chain and off-chain records matched automatically across ledgers and participants.

One client statement covering tokenised and traditional holdings.

Smart-contract-initiated events recognised and processed, not discovered.

Positions, reporting & control

Immutable audit trail and consolidated regulatory reporting from one data model.

One exception queue whether the break came from a SWIFT message or a wallet.

A single position layer for all long and short exposure, however it settles.

New instrument types are onboarded by configuration, not a bespoke integration project - a tokenised fund, a carbon credit, or an asset class that does not exist yet.

The C-suite outcome

Enter the tokenised market without a second back office.

01

New revenue, no new silo

Service tokenised flow on the platform already running your traditional book.

02

One team, not two

The same operations function handles an equity corporate action and a tokenised redemption.

03

Defensible in supervision

Consolidated risk and reporting across all asset classes, from a single data model.

04

Seams instrumented early

Integration built while volumes still forgive iteration, not under competitive pressure.

05

Extensible by configuration

Onboard the next asset class without a custom development project.

Capital markets - engineered

One operations team. One framework.
One position of record.

We will map your traditional and tokenised flows onto a single operating model and show where the seams are today.

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