Overview
- The partnership marks Ripple’s first agreement with a Europe‑based investment manager and Aviva Investors’ first move into tokenized fund structures.
- Both firms say they will work together through 2026 and beyond to issue and manage tokenized versions of existing funds on the XRP Ledger.
- Aviva Investors cites expected gains in time and cost efficiency for clients as a key motivation for adopting tokenized fund infrastructure.
- Ripple underscores XRPL’s compliance features and performance, noting more than 4 billion transactions, roughly 7 million wallets and about 120 independent validators with no energy‑intensive mining.
- Separately, Ripple expanded its collaboration with UAE‑based Zand Bank to increase use of the RLUSD stablecoin and explore projects linking RLUSD with Zand Bank’s AEDZ.