TL;DR
Schroders is bringing its emerging-markets bond strategy to Solana through Centrifuge, marking the asset manager’s first deployment on the blockchain.
Investors will hold tokenized shares in a feeder fund that invests in Schroders’ underlying Emerging Market Bond Fund, with share values tracking net asset value.
Centrifuge provides the tokenization infrastructure, extending institutional onchain fixed income beyond money-market funds and short-duration government securities into emerging-market debt exposure for eligible institutional investors.
Schroders is bringing its emerging-markets bond strategy onchain through Centrifuge, marking the asset manager’s first deployment on Solana. The firm’s website lists £867.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2026. Investors will hold tokenized shares in a feeder fund that invests in the underlying Schroder International Selection Fund Emerging Market Bonds strategy. The structure expands real-world asset tokenization beyond cash-like products , giving Schroders a blockchain distribution channel for an actively managed fixed-income strategy.
Schroders Expands Tokenization Into Emerging Market Debt
The tokenized vehicle is legally structured as a feeder fund with an onchain share class, rather than placing direct ownership of the underlying Schroders fund on Solana. The feeder invests in the Emerging Market Bond Fund, while investors hold blockchain-based shares whose value tracks the fund’s net asset value. This distinction is central to understanding the product structure. Centrifuge provides the infrastructure for issuing and managing the tokenized shares, extending its institutional fund platform into another actively managed fixed-income strategy.
The underlying strategy invests in debt issued by governments and companies across emerging economies, adding a different risk-and-return profile from the Treasury and money-market products that have dominated early institutional tokenization. Centrifuge’s Anil Sood said onchain fixed income has largely focused on cash and short-duration government securities. Emerging-market debt introduces exposure to creditworthiness, currencies and economic conditions across developing markets. The launch broadens the types of fixed-income assets being represented through tokenized fund infrastructure .
For Schroders, Solana represents a blockchain venue rather than its first tokenization initiative. The firm had already received regulatory approval in Ireland for a tokenized share class of a U.S. dollar money-market fund. The deployment instead brings its emerging-market bond strategy to Solana through Centrifuge. The move extends Schroders’ tokenization activity into a public-chain deployment for actively managed debt , alongside institutional tokenization expansion across multiple networks.
Centrifuge has more than $750 million in tokenized assets on its platform and has worked with institutional managers on blockchain-based funds. With Schroders, the infrastructure provider is extending that model into emerging-market bonds. The tokenized shares give investors blockchain-based exposure to the feeder structure while the underlying strategy remains managed by Schroders. The partnership adds an example of public blockchain rails being used for fund issuance and distribution, consistent with Centrifuge’s broader institutional asset deployments without replacing the legal investment vehicle underneath.
