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Overview
Tobias Adrian is Financial Counselor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the imf.
July 2026 Tokenization Analysis
Authored IMF blog “Tokenization: Frictions disappear — but so do buffers” (2026-07-02-imf-tokenization-tobias-adrian-blog):
- Tokenization compresses execution, clearing, settlement into simultaneous processes
- Concentration risk: “when infrastructure becomes the central hub, governance failures become systemic events”
- Emerging market angle: volatile capital flows, currency substitution, monetary sovereignty erosion
- Policy window narrowing as NYSE, Nasdaq, ICE/OKX, DTCC advance tokenization