Money Movement Goes Always-On, From Tokenised Funds to Instant Seller Payouts

A tokenised sterling fund

Aviva Investors has launched a tokenised share class for its Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger, the company says. The fund has approximately £22 billion in assets under management, and the company says it invested £50 million in the new share class, bringing total assets across its two tokenised offerings to more than £86 million (US$116 million). The first was a tokenised share class for its USD Liquidity Fund, launched in July 2026. m:…8150

The design is deliberately conservative: the share class uses a digital twin model to represent holdings on-chain while maintaining the integrity of the existing off-chain fund structure. The fund is an Ireland-domiciled UCITS money fund targeting low-risk returns and daily liquidity through high-grade sterling-denominated short-term debt instruments, the company says, with assets held by The Bank of New York Mellon and support from Komainu and Licuido. The XRP Ledger has processed more than 4 billion transactions since 2012. m:…8150

Treasury outside banking hours

Ripple is pitching the same always-on idea to corporate treasurers. The company says its Ripple Treasury platform lets global businesses manage cash, liquidity and payments around the clock, using an orchestration layer and GSmart AI to automate cash positioning, forecasting, reconciliation, liquidity management and payments. The company says its 24/7 Returns feature helps eligible customers generate returns on idle operating cash, including RLUSD held in a Ripple wallet. m:…4886

The pitch leans on survey data the company cites: 46 percent of organizations increased their US cash balances over the past year, and 86 percent of treasury professionals would choose real-time money market funds if they met their investment policies. The company says it aims to be a single partner for treasury operations, reducing operational friction and simplifying digital asset adoption. m:…4886

Analyst commentary cited by the company frames the problem as orchestration rather than rails: Kevin Permenter of IDC identifies orchestration as the emerging challenge in treasury management, and Blake Tablak of Trax reports that the partnership with Ripple Treasury is already returning value. Those two points suggest treasurers are buying coordination across systems, not just faster pipes. m:…4886

Payouts for 60,000 sellers

At the retail end of the same shift, Whop has partnered with Lightspark to give its sellers faster payouts, the companies say. Whop has 60,000 sellers, approximately 22 million users and more than US$7 billion in annual network volume, and says its sellers operate in 185 countries. Lightspark supports payouts across 65-plus countries, using rails including ACH and FedNow in the US, SEPA Instant in Europe, PIX in Brazil, UPI in India and SPEI in Mexico. m:…9071

The platform also lets users lock exchange rates and itemize fees before money moves, the company says — a small feature that matters when payouts cross currencies and time zones. Taken together, the three launches describe a practical change rather than a theoretical one: fund shares, corporate cash and creator payouts are all being rebuilt to move when their owners need them, not when banks open. For banks, the question is no longer whether money can move outside banking hours, but which parts of their own stack still assume it cannot. m:…9071 m:…8150 m:…4886