Franklin Templeton, a global investment leader, and DigiFT, a regulated digital asset exchange, have announced a strategic partnership to advance institutional tokenisation. This collaboration will make the Benji Technology Platform and its tokenisation products accessible to accredited and institutional investors through DigiFT’s platform. DigiFT, holding licences from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), is authorised to distribute regulated securities tokens to institutional investors in Singapore.
The partnership is built on a shared commitment to institutional tokenisation. Franklin Templeton pioneered the use of public blockchain for mutual fund transactions in 2021, whilst DigiFT has developed a comprehensively regulated platform for institutional tokenised asset distribution in Asia. The collaboration aims to leverage these strengths, with DigiFT serving as a key distributor across the region.
In 2025, the market for tokenised real-world assets on public blockchains surged from approximately $5.5b to $18.6b, highlighting inefficiencies in digital markets. The Benji Technology Platform addresses these by supporting the tokenisation of US government securities, offering continuous yield accrual and near-instant on-chain settlement. This enables various institutional treasury management and payment use cases.
Henry Zhang, Founder and Group CEO of DigiFT, stated, “DigiFT was built with a specific conviction that institutional investors deserve access to the world’s best on-chain financial instruments through a platform that meets the regulatory standard they require.” Chetan Karkhanis, SVP at Franklin Templeton, added, “The partners we choose reflect our long-term commitment towards bringing the benefits of blockchain and tokenisation to the industry.”
This partnership marks the beginning of what both organisations expect to be an expanding and enduring collaboration in the tokenisation space.
