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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 Global equity markets are undergoing their biggest structural shift in decades. Extended and near-continuous trading, evolving market structures, and rapidly growing data volumes are placing unprecedented demands on trading infrastructure. In a recent TradingTech Summit New York poll from…
Ondo Finance Backs SEC’s Proposed Rollback of Reg NMS Trade Through Rule
Ondo Finance – which operates a transaction platform for tokenised assets – has added its support to a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to roll back the long-standing ‘trade through rule” related to Regulation NMS. The SEC’s motivation is that it now believes the rule leads to market fragmentation and increased costs, while Ondo is…
Token Tech: ERC Tokens and Why They Important to the Financial Markets
When a tokenisation platform creates a token to represent a real-world asset (RWA) it is more than likely that the token will be created to conform with an ERC standard. ERC stands for Ethereum Request for Comment. It is a formal design and umbrella technical standard used by developers to create smart contracts, tokens, wallets…
Deepening Digital Assets into “TradFi” Depends on Infrastructure Integration
By Marco Kessler, Head Product & Business Development, Digital Assets, SIX. Digital assets no longer sit as a separate asset class outside of capital markets. They have become a fully integrated part of “TradFi”. Over the past few years, the technologies that underpin crypto are now being integrated with the core financial plumbing of capital…
Circle Names Founding Validators for Arc Blockchain, Due 16th September
Stablecoin Issuer Circle has set 16th September as the launch date for its public Arc blockchain, and has named a set of blue chip digital assets players to be the first to run validators to secure the network. In addition to Circle itself, BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy Digital, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard…
BSO Rolls Out Crypto Connect Plus for Latency-Sensitive Trading
Infrastructure and connectivity provider BSO has launched Crypto Connect Plus, which allows trading firms to spin up optimised cloud infrastructure in 10 minutes instead of requiring much longer lead times for manual provisioning. Crypto Connect plus is aimed at market makers, HFT firms, crypto prop trading desks, digital assets platforms and liquidity providers. As well…
Broadridge and Payward Add Shareholder Communications and Proxy Voting to xStocks
Broadridge Financial Solutions is adding shareholder communications and proxy voting to its unified governance platform to support eligible holders of xStocks, a leading tokenised equities framework developed by Payward Services. “As tokenised securities continue to reshape global capital markets, investors should not have to choose between blockchain innovation and shareholder rights,” says Doug DeSchutter, President of Broadridge’s…
Ripple Investments in ZILO and Licuido Expand Transfer Agency, Tokenisation Capabilities
With a focus on providing additional services in the capital markets, payments and liquidity infrastructure provider Ripple has made strategic investments into two companies: ZILO, which provides transfer agency asset technology, and Licuido, a tokenisation platform. Both investments – which collectively bring regulated transfer agency, issuance, and collateral mobility to Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) –…
Institutions Eye Stablecoins for Payments and Wall Street 2.0; But Understanding and Planning is Key to Success
It was just a dozen years ago that the first stablecoins emerged. The first entrants were BitUSD, a crypto-backed coin, and Realcoin, which was fiat backed. While BitUSD lasted just a few years, Realcoin – which quickly rebranded to Tether – became the undisputed leader in a space now valued at more than $300 billion….
ANNA Integrates Digital Token Identifiers into its ANNA Service Bureau
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is now integrating Digital Token Identifiers (DTIs) into its ANNA Service Bureau (ASB). This expansion allows ASB subscribers to access both XT ISINs for cryptoassets and DTIs for digital assets where they have been assigned. Developed in partnership with the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF) – an ANNA…