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STS Digital Secures $30m Strategic Investment to Scale Institutional Crypto Options Platform
STS Digital, the digital-asset derivatives trading firm and market access provider, has closed a $30 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Payward (the financial infrastructure platform behind cryptocurrency exchange Kraken), Strobe Ventures, Arrington Capital, F-Prime (Fidelity) and BitRock Capital, as the firm looks to accelerate the growth of its crypto…
Tradeweb and Kalshi Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Institutional Access to Prediction Markets
Tradeweb, the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, and Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market, have formed a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to Kalshi’s prediction market data. The collaboration also includes plans to support institutional-grade event contract trading via Tradeweb’s platform. The announcement brings a regulated prediction…
LMAX Group Launches Omnia Exchange as Cross-Asset Liquidity Orchestration Layer
LMAX Group has launched Omnia Exchange, a new infrastructure layer designed to enable institutions to exchange any asset against any other in real time through a single API, unifying FX, crypto, stablecoins and other digital assets within a single execution environment. Built on LMAX Group’s existing exchange technology and liquidity infrastructure, the platform combines blockchain-based…
Infrastructure Modernisation, Intelligent Workflows, Data Strategy and More: A Preview of TradingTech Summit London 2026
The conversation around trading technology has become more exacting over the past year. AI is moving into production environments. Data estates are being rationalised and rebuilt. Infrastructure decisions are increasingly shaped by resilience, transparency and regulatory pressure. Against that backdrop, A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 takes place at a time when firms are reassessing…
Taurus Integrates Morpho to Bring Onchain Lending into Institutional Custody Environments
Switzerland-based digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus SA has integrated the onchain lending network Morpho into its Taurus-PROTECT platform, in a move that brings decentralised credit strategies directly into regulated custody environments. The integration enables banks and asset managers using Taurus-PROTECT to access Morpho Vaults natively within their existing custody stack. Rather than interacting directly with…
Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo Platform Records $7.3 Trillion in Monthly Volume
Broadridge Financial Solutions has reported a significant surge in activity on its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform, processing a daily average of $365 billion in transactions throughout January 2026. Total monthly volumes reached $7.3 trillion, representing a 508% year-over-year increase compared to January 2025. This growth highlights the accelerating institutional adoption of tokenised real-asset settlement…
LSEG to Launch Digital Securities Depository for On-Chain Settlement
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has announced plans to develop the LSEG Digital Securities Depository (DSD), an on-chain settlement capability designed for institutional market participants. Scheduled for a 2026 launch subject to regulatory approval, the DSD will function as a fully interoperable infrastructure. It aims to bridge traditional and digital markets by supporting multiple blockchains…
LSEG Partners with Apex Group to Connect Private Funds to Digital Markets Infrastructure
London Stock Exchange Group and Apex Group have announced a collaboration to connect private funds to LSEG’s Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), in a move aimed at creating an end-to-end digital distribution network for private markets. The initiative is designed to streamline how fund managers access capital and how investors discover and invest in private funds…
Hex Trust and Haruko Integrate to Provide Real-Time Risk Governance for Institutional Digital Assets
Hex Trust, the digital assets financial services provider, has announced a strategic integration with the technology platform Haruko. This collaboration allows institutional clients to consolidate their regulated custody data, market activity, and staking performance into a single interface. By connecting Hex Trust’s multi-jurisdictional custody infrastructure with Haruko’s aggregation engine, the partnership aims to eliminate the…
Sage Capital Management Positions Integrated Trading Platform as Operating System for Institutional Digital Assets
Sage Capital Management has expanded its institutional digital-asset offering with the launch of a private banking service, positioning the move as part of a broader, platform-centric strategy to deliver integrated financial infrastructure for digital assets. At the centre of the proposition is the Sage platform, which the firm describes as a unified operating system designed…