Financial industry executives will need to familiarize themselves with the essentials of tokenization, and quickly. After a decade of fits and starts, momentum is building behind the development of markets in tokenized assets. These are not volatile, unbacked cryptocurrencies, but rather tokens that are linked to existing financial or physical assets and that now enjoy a measure of legal certainty, e.g. , tokenized money market funds, tokenized bonds and tokenized commercial bank money. Bullish forecasts…