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Story: Franklin Templeton and DigiFT Team Up to Push Tokenised Assets Deeper Into Asia

By Maheen Hernandez

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Benji Platform and the Intraday Yield Angle. The Benji Technology Platform has a feature that's been quietly turning heads: an Intraday Yield…

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Why Asia, Why Now. Stablecoin and tokenised asset adoption across Asia has grown sharply in recent years.

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What the Deal Actually Means for Institutional Investors. For institutional investors in Asia, the practical upshot is access.

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Franklin Templeton and Singapore-regulated DigiFT just announced a strategic partnership. The goal: push the Benji Technology Platform and its tokenisation products into the…

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The Benji platform — Franklin Templeton's blockchain-based investment infrastructure — will now live on DigiFT's digital asset exchange.

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The partnership opens access to tokenised investment solutions for accredited and institutional investors. No retail free-for-all here.

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DigiFT's platform is set up to distribute exactly these kinds of products. Its regulatory licenses in Singapore and Hong Kong aren't just checkboxes — they're the infrastructure…

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And the market they're building into? It's growing fast. In 2025, the tokenised real-world asset market expanded from $5.5 billion to $18.6 billion. That's not a rounding error.

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Stablecoin and tokenised asset adoption across Asia has grown sharply in recent years. Institutional infrastructure has started catching up with that demand — and regulators in…

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Franklin Templeton's experience in traditional asset management is the other half of the equation.

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So the partnership isn't just two companies shaking hands for a press release. It's Franklin Templeton's distribution reach and product depth meeting DigiFT's regional regulatory…

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Unclear yet whether the rollout hits Singapore first, Hong Kong, or both simultaneously. The companies haven't disclosed a schedule or named additional markets they're targeting.

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What's not murky is the product focus. Tokenised U.S. government securities, facilitated through Benji's Intraday Yield mechanism, are the anchor.

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For institutional investors in Asia, the practical upshot is access. Benji's tokenised products — previously harder to reach through DigiFT's platform — become available through…

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