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Clearstream Pulls Tokenised Securities into the Institutional Collateral Stack
The Deutsche Börse Group CSD’s partnership with Ondo Finance and 360X places tokenised equities and ETFs inside regulated European post-trade infrastructure, starting with US names – and sets up a two-way bridge between traditional collateral pools and on-chain venues. Clearstream has taken a visible step towards integrating public-blockchain assets into its institutional post-trade infrastructure, partnering…
DTCC and CME Secure Approval to Expand U.S. Treasury Cross-Margining for End Users
DTCC and CME Group have received approval from the SEC and CFTC to extend their U.S. Treasury cross-margining arrangement to end-user clients of dually registered broker/dealers and futures commission merchants that are common members of DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and CME. The expanded service is due to go live on April 30 and…
DTCC Takes Core Clearing Infrastructure to Public Cloud in Landmark Migration
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is migrating core clearance and settlement systems to a public cloud infrastructure for the first time, in a move that marks one of the most significant architectural shifts in US post-trade infrastructure since the organisation’s formation. The announcement, made on 15 April, confirms that DTCC will use Amazon…
HSBC’s Canton Pilot Is a Milestone – But the Real Test Is Everything Around It
HSBC has completed a pilot issuing and settling its tokenised deposits on the Canton Network, the public blockchain developed by Digital Asset for regulated institutional finance. The bank’s Global Payments Solutions business simulated the issuance, transfer and atomic settlement of its Tokenised Deposit Service against other digital assets on Canton-enabled applications – the first time…
How Murex and Quant Network are Tackling the Tokenisation Operationalisation Gap
Tokenisation of real-world assets has crossed the $100 billion mark. DTCC has received SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and JPMorgan have live tokenised funds. The New York Stock Exchange is developing a blockchain-based venue for 24/7 trading of tokenised securities. And in the UK, a consortium of six major…
Post-Trade at a Crossroads: Re-Engineering the Infrastructure Behind Modern Markets
Post-trade infrastructure is entering a period of structural change unlike anything the industry has seen since the regulatory reform that followed the 2008 financial crisis. Settlement cycles are compressing, trading hours are extending toward continuous operation, cross-asset strategies are demanding unified lifecycle management, and the tokenisation of real-world assets is opening new possibilities for collateral…
Nasdaq Positions Calypso as the Institutional Bridge for On-Chain/Off-Chain Collateral Convergence
Nasdaq is building a modular infrastructure ecosystem around its Calypso platform, positioning it as the institutional bridge between traditional and digital asset collateral workflows. A partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Talos, announced in March, is the most recent in a sequence of coordinated initiatives – including a live integration with the Canton network and…
Tokenisation’s Real Barrier Is Perception, Not Regulation, Summit Panel Argues
Stablecoins account for roughly $300 billion of tokenised value, intraday repo products are running at billions per day on distributed ledger infrastructure, and at least one retail venue has processed $25 billion in tokenised equity trading. Yet institutional adoption remains sluggish, held back, a panel at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 argued, less by…
DTCC Expands Board with Senior Market Structure, Treasury and Operations Leaders
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four senior financial services executives to its Board of Directors, reinforcing governance oversight across market infrastructure, risk, and post-trade operations. The new appointees – Roland Chai (Nasdaq), Massimiliano Ciardi (Citadel), Stephen Hood (Marex), and Georges Lauchard (Barclays) – bring experience spanning exchange operations, treasury and funding,…
Industry Cautiously Backs EU Market Reform Ambitions, But Warns Execution Risks Loom Large
A panel at A-Team’s Group’s TradingTech Summit London 2026 offered a broadly supportive but clear-eyed assessment of the EU’s Savings and Investment Union (SIU) package, welcoming the shift toward a competitiveness agenda but warning the reforms risk falling short without bolder action on post-trade interoperability, data quality and regulatory simplification. The session, “The Evolution of…