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Upcoming Webinar: From Monolith to Modular: Architecting Equity Trading Platforms for 24/5 and Beyond
Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many…
Digital Assets Move Closer to the Institutional Trading Stack as Caplin Launches Hosted Platform
Institutional digital asset trading is beginning to confront a familiar problem: as the market grows, the technology supporting it has to move beyond specialist systems and manual workflows towards the kind of integrated infrastructure already established in markets such as FX. That shift is behind the launch of a new hosted, white-label digital asset trading…
Vermeg and CBUAE Select MACH DLT for New Securities Depository
Technology provider Vermeg and the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) have selected Delta Capita’s MACH Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to power a new Digital Asset Securities Depository (DASD). This initiative is part of Vermeg’s broader mandate, awarded by the CBUAE in April 2026, to design and deliver an integrated conventional and digital Central Securities…
AMC, Robinhood Dispute Highlights Equity Token Market Debate
The CEOs of AMC Entertainment and Robinhood are publicly clashing over “tokenised stocks” trading on Robinhood’s blockchain. The conflict got its start when AMC CEO Adam Aron discovered that Robinhood was offering a digital token bearing the movie theatre chain’s name and tracking its stock price – all l without AMC’s permission or involvement. Robinhood…
SEC Proposes New Transfer Agent Rules to Allow DLTs to Host Official Ownership Records
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has continued its push to accommodate digital assets and DLT platforms within the legal framework for securities trading with a proposal that formally allows for DLT platforms to be used by transfer agents as a primary record keeper. The proposal represents a plan for the first major overhaul…
Archax Launches US Digital Broker-Dealer; Taps tZERO for Custody, Clearing and Secondary Trading
Archax Group, which already operates a regulated digital asset platform in the UK and EU, has received approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), completing its registration as a US digital broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It has also arranged for tZERO Group units to give Archax clients access to a…
Rush to Build AI into Risk Models Creating Dangerous Capability ‘Gaps’
Asset managers may be exposing themselves to operational vulnerabilities as they rapidly integrate artificial intelligence and agents into their risk management systems, often without first ensuring trust in the data that will feed the models. A survey found that three-quarters of 178 senior investment leaders questioned said they expect the pace of AI and agents…
Thanks to LayerZero, Tether Extends Reach with Stellar. Ecosystem Benefits Now; More Chains to Follow?
Via an integration developed by LayerZero Labs, Tether – the world’s most popular stablecoin – is now available on the Stellar blockchain. While adding Stellar represents an immediate significant addition to Tether’s USDT reach, by leveraging LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard, in the future, extending Tether to other blockchains theoretically requires little effort. Before…
Remi Secures Stellar Funding for Privacy-Oriented Payments
Remi, an Egyptian-founded FinTech based in the UAE, has secured a grant of approximately USD 135,000 from the Stellar Community Fund. Founded in the cross-border payments infrastructure startup connects financial institutions to local payout rails. The newly acquired funding will be dedicated to developing a confidential settlement layer on the Stellar blockchain specifically designed for…
Bank Group Plans USD Stablecoin Launch in 1H27
Reuters reports that a yet-to-named coalition of 21 major financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, and Deutsche Bank, has announced plans to form a new company dedicated to launching a US dollar-pegged cryptocurrency in the first half of 2027. This stablecoin aims to integrate DLT technology into the mainstream financial system, with…