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Franklin Templeton CEO: Blockchains Threaten Wall Street’s Fee Machine, Not Its Technology

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Micah Zimmerman.

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson said traditional finance resists public blockchains because they threaten fee-based revenue, as the firm expands aggressively into tokenization, bitcoin products, and on-chain finance.

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Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson has a straightforward explanation for why major financial institutions have been slow to embrace public blockchains: the technology destroys their fee-based revenue streams. Speaking at the Proof of Talk summit in Paris, Johnson, who oversees $1.74 trillion in assets at Franklin Templeton BENJI tokens were used as part of the acquisition payment, making it one of the first M&A transactions structured on-chain.

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