Binance and Franklin Templeton Team Up to Build Institutional-Grade Digital Asset Products

Binance and Franklin Templeton team up to create institutional-grade digital asset products for global investors.
The collaboration merges Franklin Templeton’s tokenisation expertise with Binance’s extensive trading infrastructure.
Goals include improving settlement efficiency, transparency, portfolio management, and capital market accessibility.

Binance and Franklin Templeton have announced a strategic partnership to develop digital asset products designed for institutional investors. The collaboration will combine Franklin Templeton’s experience in compliant tokenisation of securities with Binance’s extensive global trading infrastructure and investor base.

With Franklin Templeton managing US$1.64 trillion (AU$2.48 trillion) in assets as of August 2025, the partnership aims to merge traditional financial expertise with the efficiency of blockchain technology.

The initiative seeks to deliver innovative solutions that improve transparency, accessibility, and efficiency in capital markets, while offering competitive yield and faster settlement options.

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Tokenisation at Scale

Sandy Kaul, EVP and Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, highlighted that blockchain technology is evolving from niche applications to mainstream financial tools.

We see blockchain not as a threat to legacy systems, but as an opportunity to reimagine them. By working with Binance, we can harness tokenisation to bring institutional-grade solutions like our Benji Technology Platform to a wider set of investors and help bridge the worlds of traditional and decentralised finance.

Sandy Kaul, EVP and Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton

Roger Bayston, EVP and Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, noted that investors are showing growing interest in digital assets but require solutions that are both practical and dependable. He explained that the collaboration with Binance aims to turn tokenisation from a conceptual idea into real-world tools that improve settlement processes, collateral management, and portfolio construction at scale.

According to Catherine Chen, Head of VIP & Institutional at Binance, the collaboration will enable new products and initiatives that create broader opportunities for investors and strengthen the integration between decentralised and conventional markets.

Our goal is to take tokenisation from concept to practice for clients to achieve efficiencies in settlement, collateral management, and portfolio construction at scale.