{"id":420538,"date":"2026-04-27T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420538\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:47:25","slug":"funds-industry-will-lose-out-if-government-falls-behind-on-tokenisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420538\/","title":{"rendered":"Funds industry will lose out if Government falls behind on \u2018tokenisation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland must keep pace with \u2018broad technological upgrade\u2019 taking place<br \/>\nin the sector, says advocacy group\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pat Lardner is CEO of advocacy group Irish Funds, the voice of Ireland\u2019s asset management industry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e4b42fbf-e908-45a8-ad9b-4102f54d15e6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pat Lardner is CEO of advocacy group Irish Funds, the voice of Ireland\u2019s asset management industry<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland risks losing its place as a major hub for the global funds sector if the legal and regulatory environment can\u2019t keep pace with rapidly developing technological shifts, the Government is being warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Chief executive of Irish Funds, Pat Lardner, told the Irish Independent that the sector is undergoing what he called a \u201cbroad technological upgrade\u201d of the infrastructure used to process transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland must keep pace with \u2018broad technological upgrade\u2019 taking place in the sector, says advocacy group Pat Lardner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,14486,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-420538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-donal-odonovan","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}