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Upcoming Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform
Date: 28 April 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market. New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks. Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and…
DTCC Takes Core Clearing Infrastructure to Public Cloud in Landmark Migration
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is migrating core clearance and settlement systems to a public cloud infrastructure for the first time, in a move that marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in US post-trade infrastructure since the organisation’s formation. The announcement, made on 15 April, confirms that DTCC will use Amazon…
SIX Brings European Equities Data Onchain via Chainlink Oracle Network
SIX has made equities data from its exchanges available onchain for the first time through an integration with Chainlink’s DataLink publishing service. The arrangement covers equities listed on SIX’s exchanges in Switzerland and Spain – representing over €2tn in market capitalisation – and makes the data accessible to more than 2,600 applications across 75-plus public…
STS Digital Becomes First Principal Derivatives Dealer Integrated on BitGo’s Go Network
STS Digital has launched as an exchange partner on BitGo’s Go Network for Off-Exchange Settlement (OES). This integration allows institutional clients to trade digital asset derivatives directly with a principal dealer while keeping their assets secured in BitGo’s regulated custody. Previously, the OES model was limited to connecting clients with exchanges; this update enables direct…
Deutsche Börse Puts $200m Behind Kraken as Race to Build Hybrid Market Infrastructure Accelerates
Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a 1.5% fully diluted stake in Payward, Inc. – the parent company of global cryptocurrency platform Kraken – for $200 million, in a secondary share transaction that deepens a strategic partnership announced in December 2025. The investment is the latest and most concrete signal that Europe’s largest exchange group is…
HSBC’s Canton Pilot Is a Milestone – But the Real Test Is Everything Around It
HSBC has completed a pilot issuing and settling its tokenised deposits on the Canton Network, the public blockchain developed by Digital Asset for regulated institutional finance. The bank’s Global Payments Solutions business simulated the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service against other digital assets on Canton-enabled applications – the first time…
How Murex and Quant Network are Tackling the Tokenisation Operationalisation Gap
Tokenisation of real-world assets has crossed the $100 billion mark. DTCC has received SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and JPMorgan have live tokenised funds. The New York Stock Exchange is developing a blockchain-based venue for 24/7 trading of tokenised securities. And in the UK, a consortium of six major…
Arcesium Partners with Feynman Point Asset Management to Unified Multi-Asset Infrastructure
Arcesium, the financial technology provider, has formed a partnership with Feynman Point Asset Management (FPAM) to provide a unified infrastructure for digital and traditional assets. FPAM, an investment firm focused on digital asset markets and frontier technologies, will utilise Arcesium’s reconciliation solutions to manage its expanding investment landscape within a single ecosystem. The partnership enables…
Nasdaq Positions Calypso as the Institutional Bridge for On-Chain/Off-Chain Collateral Convergence
Nasdaq is building a modular infrastructure ecosystem around its Calypso platform, positioning it as the institutional bridge between traditional and digital asset collateral workflows. A partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Talos, announced in March, is the most recent in a sequence of coordinated initiatives – including a live integration with the Canton network and…
STS Digital and Haruko Integrate to Give Institutional Options Traders Unified Risk View
STS Digital, the regulated principal trading firm specialising in digital asset derivatives, has integrated with institutional portfolio management provider Haruko to deliver consolidated risk and position reporting for options traders. The integration allows institutional clients who trade vanilla and exotic options on STS Digital’s platform to view those positions on an aggregated basis alongside activity…