Franklin Templeton and Binance use blockchain to combine traditional finance with fast, accessible decentralized markets
Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, and Franklin Templeton , a global investment leader with $1.6 trillion in assets under management, announced a strategic collaboration to develop digital asset initiatives designed for a wide range of investors.
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The partnership will combine Franklin Templeton’s expertise in compliant security tokenization with Binance’s global trading infrastructure and investor reach. Together, the firms aim to deliver innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, transparency, and accessibility across capital markets while unlocking new opportunities in competitive yield generation and settlement efficiency.
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“As these tools and technologies evolve from the fringes to the financial mainstream, partnerships like this will be essential to accelerating adoption,” said Sandy Kaul, EVP, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton. “We see blockchain not as a threat to legacy systems, but as an opportunity to reimagine them. By working with Binance, we can harness tokenization to bring institutional-grade solutions like our Benji Technology Platform to a wider set of investors and help bridge the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance.”
More and more investors are looking at digital assets to stay ahead of the curve, but what they need most is accessibility and reliability,” said Roger Bayston, EVP and Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton. “With this partnership, we’re turning tokenization from a concept into a practical tool delivering real efficiencies in settlement, collateral management, and portfolio construction at scale
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Catherine Chen, Head of VIP & Institutional at Binance, said: “Binance has a record of pioneering crypto-first solutions that unlock access and opportunity for investors. Our collaboration with Franklin Templeton to co-create new products and initiatives reinforces our commitment to bridging crypto with traditional capital markets and opening up greater possibilities.”
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