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tZERO Plans Public Listing via SPAC
Tokenisation infrastructure-as-a-service pioneer tZERO Group is listing as a public company via a merger with FG Imperii Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company. The transaction values tZERO at a pre-money equity valuation of $350 million. The combined entity plans to list on the NYSE American exchange under the ticker “TZRO”. Existing shareholders will roll…
S&P Global Ratings Taps Chainlink for Vault Risk Service
S&P Global Ratings has partnered with blockchain oracle Chainlink to make S&P Global Vault Risk Assessment data available on chain. The integration gives institutions and investors direct access to independent vault risk analysis, enabling market participants to evaluate lending vault risks and make more informed decisions about where to deploy capital on chain. The integration…
TT Adds Bitstamp by Robinhood Digital Asset Access
Trading Technologies now supports trading on Bitstamp by Robinhood’s digital asset markets. Institutional market participants can access Bitstamp by Robinhood’s crypto spot and derivatives markets alongside other asset classes, including futures, fixed income and foreign exchange within TT’s multi-asset environment. TT becomes the first major traditional-markets order/execution management system (O/EMS) to connect directly to Bitstamp by Robinhood,…
Securitize and Stellar Plan Integration to Support Regulated Financial Transactions
Tokenisation platform Securitize plans to integrate with the Stellar network, making it the 17th blockchain ecosystem that it supports. Stellar joins prominent financial markets networks including Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche – and adds regulated, SEC-registered transfer agent infrastructure to Stellar’s increasingly popular financial rails. As a result, the partnership will offer global asset managers a…
Eurex Clearing Unveils Hybrid CCP Model to Integrate Traditional and Digital Securities
Eurex Clearing has announced plans to become what it describes as the world’s first hybrid central counterparty (CCP), integrating traditional and digitally native securities within a single clearing framework, rulebook and risk model. The initiative will allow market participants to trade, clear and finance digital instruments using their existing clearing relationships and infrastructure. Under the…
Ripple and BNY Expand Partnership to New Blockchain Use Cases, Including Tokenised Trade Finance
Ripple and BNY have expanded their strategic partnership to broaden institutional digital asset custody capabilities and explore new blockchain use cases, including tokenised trade finance. Building on BNY’s existing role as the primary reserve custodian for Ripple’s stablecoin (RLUSD), BNY’s Digital Asset Custody platform now supports both XRP and RLUSD. This integration allows eligible institutional…
AWS Blog Post Documents Digital Assets CEX Reference Architecture
A blog post authored by three Amazon Web Services technologists documents a reference architecture for a centralised exchange (CEX) for digital assets. The blog post, titled “Build a digital assets exchange on AWS: A reference architecture“ notes that the reference architecture “aggregates the architectural decisions that recurred across CEX deployments that AWS Solutions Architects have…
Chainlink’s CustodySync Boosts TradFi Custody with DeFi Lending
Chainlink Labs has launched Chainlink CustodySync to synchronise regulated digital asset custodians with decentralised finance (DeFi) lending markets. The platform aims to bridge the gap between approximately $700 billion in digital assets held under custody and the more than $80 billion available in DeFi deposits, allowing institutions to access on-chain liquidity without moving assets out…
Layer-1 Blockchain Projects Respond to SEC’s Proposed “Crypto Assets” Regulation
A group of major Layer-1 blockchain projects has formally urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explicitly codify a “digital commodity” classification within its proposed regulatory framework. In a joint comment letter addressed to SEC Secretary Vanessa A. Countryman, six prominent industry participants requested key modifications to the agency’s proposed “Regulation Crypto Assets”…
Texture, Obsidian Announce Tradecraft ATS on Canton Network
Broker-dealer Texture Capital and financial systems developer Obsidian Systems have announced the development of Tradecraft ATS, which is set to become the first US-regulated trading platform for tokenised securities built on the Canton Network. While Canton already supports asset issuance and settlement, this new venture introduces a fully regulated venue specifically designed for trading. Tradecraft…