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The asset management arm of Aviva plc, reporting £253bn under management at 30 September 2025, which on 29 July 2026 launched a tokenized share class of its Irish-domiciled US Dollar Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger with Ripple, approved by the Central Bank of Ireland.
Aviva Investors is the asset management business of Aviva plc, created in 2008 when the insurer combined Morley Fund Management and its regional managers under a single global brand, a plan announced on 28 February 2008 and formally launched that September. Headquartered in London, it reports £253bn under management at 30 September 2025, its own figure. Capabilities span equities, fixed income, multi-asset and multi-strategy, private markets, liquidity solutions, real estate finance and infrastructure finance, with global distribution running through the Luxembourg-domiciled Aviva Investors SICAV and an Irish-domiciled liquidity fund range. On 29 July 2026 the firm launched a tokenized share class of the Aviva Investors US Dollar Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger, which it describes as the first tokenization of an Aviva Investors fund and which follows a partnership with Ripple announced on 11 February 2026. The Central Bank of Ireland approved the share class. Komainu provides regulated digital asset custody and Licuido the tokenization infrastructure, while the fund's assets stay with its custodian, The Bank of New York Mellon.
Developments in which Aviva Investors is a named party, newest first.
The Central Bank of Ireland has approved a tokenized share class of Aviva Investors' US Dollar Liquidity Fund, issued on the XRP Ledger with Ripple, Komainu and Licuido—which Aviva calls a regulatory first for tokenized fund structures.
Aviva Investors launched a tokenized share class of its US Dollar Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger on 29 July 2026, approved by the Central Bank of Ireland. Ripple supplies the ledger, Komainu the institutional custody of the tokens and Licuido the tokenization infrastructure, with The Bank of New York Mellon remaining the fund's custodian. The conventional fund has run since 2020 and the tokenized class carries the same investment terms.
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