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Collateral Management Winner for Tokenisation Use Cases in UK Survey
Collateral management was the winning use case cited by respondents to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England call for input survey, titled “The future of tokenisation: A joint vision from the authorities for UK wholesale financial markets.” With the survey garnering 123 responses, the results report notes that “Collateral was by…
S&P Global Acquires Smart Contract Security Leader OpenZeppelin
S&P Global has announced the acquisition of OpenZeppelin, a prominent smart contract and blockchain security specialist. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. According to the companies, the acquisition is intended to integrate OpenZeppelin’s security and development services into S&P Global’s digital asset capabilities, focusing on the creation of future on-chain security assessments and…
SEC Introduces “Innovation Exception” to Allow Regulated Trading of Tokenised Securities
In a landmark move that significantly advances the implementation of a regulated tokenised securities marketplace in the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted a temporary and conditional “exemption” to allow new Tokenised Securities Venues (TSVs) to operate and trade tokenised National Market System (NMS) stocks without registering as a traditional exchange. The…
Tokenovate Executes CDM-Native Intraday Repo on Canton Network
Tokenovate has executed and settled an intraday repo transaction on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), with the cash leg settled in Circle-issued USDC expressed as USDCx Reserve on Canton. The transaction used CDM-native event and state management across the full repo lifecycle, covering trade representation, lifecycle processing, collateral movements and…
S&P Global Leads Investment in Kaiko as Series B Reaches $110 Million
S&P Global has led a strategic investment in digital asset data provider Kaiko, extending the company’s Series B funding to $110 million as it expands its data infrastructure for tokenised markets. The round also includes BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, Broadridge, Canton Foundation, Coinbase Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, Nasdaq Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada, Stellar and Susquehanna…
Following Restructuring, ConsenSys Focuses on ZK Layer 2 Network
A major corporate restructuring at Consensys Software, leading to the spin out of its consumer-focused MataMask wallet business, has also established a distinct entity (still called ConsenSys) focused entirely on institutional infrastructure based on the Linea zkEVM Layer 2 network. Linea’s design features full Ethereum equivalence, allowing smart contracts, decentralised applications, and existing enterprise tools built for…
tZERO Announces New Funding; Working Towards Strategic Transaction
Blockchain financial infrastructure provider tZERO Group has announced a new funding round led by prominent investors Marc and Max Cohodes and including participation from existing investors Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and Bill Fleckenstein, alongside support from its partner Dinari and other contributors. Additionally, Neighborhood Intelligence has committed to funding its portion of the financing once tZERO announces…
Broadridge Launches DLX Digital Asset Infrastructure for Full Lifecycle Tokenisation
Building on its established Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) capability for collateral mobility and securities financing, Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched DLX, an integrated, end-to-end tokenisation and digital asset infrastructure platform for financial institutions. DLR, which recently broadened its support for different assets, processes more than $350 billion in daily activity across thousands of transactions. DLX…
Nasdaq Invests in Payward, Continues Collaboration on NET Framework
Exchange technology group Nasdaq has announced a $100 million strategic investment in Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, to expand their collaborative work on tokenised market infrastructure. Facilitated through its investment arm, Nasdaq Ventures, the transaction includes a capital infusion, a market surveillance agreement and continued joint development of the proposed Nasdaq Equity Token (NET) framework. Founded in…
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…