How ready is the financial industry for the tokenisation of money? Lessons from APAC

# How ready is the financial industry for the tokenisation of money? Lessons from APAC

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report
> Source: [The Paypers](https://thepaypers.com/crypto-web3-and-cbdc/interviews/how-ready-is-the-financial-industry-for-the-tokenisation-of-money-lessons-from-apac)
> Published: 2026-07-31
> Captured: 2026-08-01T13:43:46.717Z

## Source summary

An EPAA workshop at Money20/20 Asia concluded that custody, compliance and settlement technology for tokenised money is available, but adoption is constrained by regulatory consistency, interoperability, trust and cross-border identity. EPAA says the industry should not call itself ready until corridors move from pilots to live end-to-end commercial use.

## Why it matters

For cross-border payments, the practical test is whether stablecoins or tokenised deposits can deliver 24/7 near-real-time settlement with interoperable identity and AML controls across jurisdictions. This is an EPAA interview, not proof that the cited corridors are already live at scale.

## Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Web3 & stablecoin payments
- Entities: Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA)
- Web3 payments
- Cross-border payments

## Evidence and credibility note

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Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

## First-party corroboration

No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked.

## Original-source traceback

[Open the original The Paypers report](https://thepaypers.com/crypto-web3-and-cbdc/interviews/how-ready-is-the-financial-industry-for-the-tokenisation-of-money-lessons-from-apac)

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