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CFTC’s Selig Sets Out Agenda for Leaner Rules and Faster Markets
Michael Selig has placed derivatives regulation at the centre of the US competitiveness agenda, using his keynote at the ISDA annual meeting to call for a more proportionate rulebook, deeper SEC and CFTC alignment, and a clearer path for innovation in swaps, clearing, tokenised collateral and market structure. He framed the CFTC’s task as keeping…
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…
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…
SEC Launches Crypto Task Force to Provide Clarity on Regulatory Framework
Acting U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mark T. Uyeda has launched a new crypto task force aimed at establishing a comprehensive and transparent regulatory framework for digital assets. Commissioner Hester Peirce will lead the initiative, with Richard Gabbert, Senior Advisor to the Acting Chairman serving as the task force Chief of Staff, and…
Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now…