Bloomberg Surveillance · Thursday, July 23, 2026
Darren May believes tokenized currencies and the underlying financial market infrastructure are the future. He sees tokenized assets and money enabling faster settlement and increased efficiency, though he is not necessarily an evangelist for specific cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
“Fortunately, my my obligations around crypto don't extend to the nonsense of forecasting tokens quite yet. Where my conversations focused is token ized currencies, you know, stable coins, these elements the banks moving was I think a spectActor of technology. I definitely think this is the future of kind of financial market. Infrastructure in the future. The future will be We're all going to tokenized assets. We're going to be trading it with tokenized money, whatever shape or form that money is, and we're going to have faster settlement.”
“Markets look for efficiency gains, and this technology does provide that. I'm not necessarily an evangelist for bitcoin or other specific token to but as a as a plumbing gig, it's twenty four You might say, what do we want twenty four seven trading? Because you like, we want to play golf for the weekend, But the reality is people want to be able to move money flexibly twenty four to seven and if you can reduce settlement risk another aspects for seven.”