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Ahead of Tokenised Securities Trading, NYSE Expands Roster of Authorised Transfer Agents
In preparation for the launch of its tokenised security trading platform and affiliate venue, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has expanded the roster of companies authorised to provide transfer agent services for digital assets. Joining Securitize and tZERO, which have already entered into agreements with the NYSE, are Broadridge Financial Solutions, Computershare, Equiniti and...
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Securitize and Stellar Plan Integration to Support Regulated Financial Transactions
Tokenisation platform Securitize plans to integrate with the Stellar network, making it the 17th blockchain ecosystem that it supports. Stellar joins prominent financial markets networks including Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche – and adds regulated, SEC-registered transfer agent infrastructure to Stellar’s increasingly popular financial rails. As a result, the partnership will offer global asset managers a...
Eurex Clearing Unveils Hybrid CCP Model to Integrate Traditional and Digital Securities
Eurex Clearing has announced plans to become what it describes as the world’s first hybrid central counterparty (CCP), integrating traditional and digitally native securities within a single clearing framework, rulebook and risk model. The initiative will allow market participants to trade, clear and finance digital instruments using their existing clearing relationships and infrastructure. Under the...
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge Launch Nasdaq-100 Tokenised Fund on Stellar Network
London-based asset manager Janus Henderson and tokenisation platform Centrifuge have announced the launch of JQQQ, a blockchain-native fund that provides exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index through an issuer-sponsored strategy. The fund is designed for issuance and operation on public blockchain infrastructure, combining traditional investment management standards with digital financial applications. The fund is launching on...
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tZERO Plans Public Listing via SPAC
Tokenisation infrastructure-as-a-service pioneer tZERO Group is listing as a public company via a merger with FG Imperii Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company. The transaction values tZERO at a pre-money equity valuation of $350 million. The combined entity plans to list on the NYSE American exchange under the ticker “TZRO”. Existing shareholders will roll…
S&P Global Ratings Taps Chainlink for Vault Risk Service
S&P Global Ratings has partnered with blockchain oracle Chainlink to make S&P Global Vault Risk Assessment data available on chain. The integration gives institutions and investors direct access to independent vault risk analysis, enabling market participants to evaluate lending vault risks and make more informed decisions about where to deploy capital on chain. The integration…
TT Adds Bitstamp by Robinhood Digital Asset Access
Trading Technologies now supports trading on Bitstamp by Robinhood’s digital asset markets. Institutional market participants can access Bitstamp by Robinhood’s crypto spot and derivatives markets alongside other asset classes, including futures, fixed income and foreign exchange within TT’s multi-asset environment. TT becomes the first major traditional-markets order/execution management system (O/EMS) to connect directly to Bitstamp by Robinhood,…
Standard Chartered to Acquire Zodia Custody; Spin Out Zodia Solutions
Standard Chartered has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Zodia Custody, including 100% of Zodia Custody UK Limited, the parent company of its regulated operating entities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Luxembourg. Post completion, Zodia Custody’s regulated digital asset custody business will be integrated into Standard Chartered’s existing digital asset…
tZERO to Provide Broker-Dealer and ATS Services to Temple Digital on Canton
tZERO Group’s tZERO Securities will provide broker-dealer and alternative trading system (ATS) services to Temple Digital Group to power Temple’s tokenised securities trading platform on the Canton Network. Under the agreement, Temple will support its trading technology with tZERO Securities’ regulated operating infrastructure, including client onboarding and transaction services. This lets Temple bring tokenised securities…
Ripple and BNY Expand Partnership to New Blockchain Use Cases, Including Tokenised Trade Finance
Ripple and BNY have expanded their strategic partnership to broaden institutional digital asset custody capabilities and explore new blockchain use cases, including tokenised trade finance. Building on BNY’s existing role as the primary reserve custodian for Ripple’s stablecoin (RLUSD), BNY’s Digital Asset Custody platform now supports both XRP and RLUSD. This integration allows eligible institutional…
AWS Blog Post Documents Digital Assets CEX Reference Architecture
A blog post authored by three Amazon Web Services technologists documents a reference architecture for a centralised exchange (CEX) for digital assets. The blog post, titled “Build a digital assets exchange on AWS: A reference architecture“ notes that the reference architecture “aggregates the architectural decisions that recurred across CEX deployments that AWS Solutions Architects have…
Texture, Obsidian Announce Tradecraft ATS on Canton Network
Broker-dealer Texture Capital and financial systems developer Obsidian Systems have announced the development of Tradecraft ATS, which is set to become the first US-regulated trading platform for tokenised securities built on the Canton Network. While Canton already supports asset issuance and settlement, this new venture introduces a fully regulated venue specifically designed for trading. Tradecraft…
OKX Raises Funding at $25 Billion Valuation
Digital assets exchange OKX has raised new funding at a $25 billion valuation from stablecoin issuer Circle, payments service Ripple and Standard Chartered’s investment arm, SC Ventures. “Through strategic investment and partnership, OKX is aligning some of the most critical builders of financial infrastructure behind its vision for the next generation of on-chain markets,” OKX…
Solana Foundation and Samsung Bring USDC to 82 Million Users This Month
The Solana Foundation has announced that Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support stablecoins on Solana. Samsung Wallet users in the United States will be able to send money using Circle’s USDC by month end. Some 82 million US Galaxy device users will be able to send a remittance from the same wallet interface they already use for cards, boarding passes and IDs,…
OpenAssets and Sui Advance Institutional Tokenisation Standards Under Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
Digital Assets infrastructure provider OpenAssets is collaborating with blockchain project Sui to advance the development of the Open Tokenised Asset Standard (OTAS) within the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) organization. OTAS is designed as a neutral, auditable foundation for identity, compliance, asset representation, and reporting, that institutions can build on rather than adopting wholesale. The…
OKXICE Joint Venture to Launch TSV for US-listed Equities
OKXICE, the recently formed 50-50 joint venture between Intercontinental Exchange and crypto market OKX, has filed to launch a round-the-clock Tokenised Securities Venue (TSV) under the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new five-year “Innovation Exemption.” When authorized, the platform will list more than 60 major US-listed equities, distinguishing itself by offering tokens designed to represent direct…
WisdomTree Rebrands Digital Assets Business
Asset manager WisdomTree has rebranded its digital assets business – formed in 2021 – to WisdomTree Onchain. It encompasses the WisdomTree Connect, WisdomTree Prime, Onchain Transfer Agency and Onchain Markets activities, as well as collaboration with MoonPay and minority investments in businesses, such as Fnality and a financial-institution-led global stablecoin project. The business continues to…
Coinbase and Citi Partner to Support Stablecoins for Merchant Clients
Coinbase and Citi have deepened their collaboration to extend Coinbase’s payments infrastructure to Spring by Citi, the bank’s institutional payment acceptance platform. This enables Citi’s enterprise merchant clients to accept stablecoin payments at checkout without the need to hold or manage digital assets directly. Coinbase’s infrastructure handles the automatic conversion of digital currency into fiat,…
Circle’s Arc Layer 1 Blockchain Goes Live
Circle has executed the public mainnet launch of Arc, an open Layer 1 blockchain specifically engineered for financial markets, real-time money movement, and AI-driven economic activity. The new platform debuts with native integration into Circle’s full-stack infrastructure, which features the USDC stablecoin. Arc distinguishes itself from traditional blockchains through several core design choices intended to power…
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Ethereum Institutional Appoints Duong as Head of US
Non-profit advocacy organisation Ethereum Institutional has appointed David Duong as Head of US, based in New York City. Duong brings 20+ years in institutional markets research, most recently as Global Head of Investment Research at Coinbase where he led crypto research for the exchange’s institutional clients, covering economic insights, valuation models and market structure. Before…
Tokenovate Taps L’Heveder as CRO
Post-trade settlement specialist Tokenovate has hired William L’Heveder as its Chief Revenue Officer. He brings more than a decade of experience across capital markets, strategy and commercial leadership, with over seven years at BMLL, a provider of historical market data and analytics. He also worked as Boston Consulting Group and as a derivatives trader. His…
Crypto Advocate Hester Peirce Departs SEC for Academia
Hester Peirce has left her Commissioner role at the US Securities & Exchange Commission after an eight-year tenure. During her time at the regulator she consistently advocated for rules and positions that encouraged the advancement of crypto and digital assets. Peirce also oversaw the SEC’s Crypto Task Force since January 2025, during which time the…
Broadridge Recruits Golden as Head of Tokenised Product
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced the appointment of Theo Golden, CFA, as Head of Tokenised Product, International, a newly created role. Golden will lead tokenised product development across Broadridge’s international markets, helping global clients adopt compliant, interoperable digital asset solutions at scale. Based in London, Golden will focus on designing, building and bringing to market tokenised…
Apex Group Taps Ouaknine as Global Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure & Wealth Distribution
Apex Group has appointed Jørgen Ouaknine as Global Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure & Wealth Distribution. Based in New York City and reporting to Georges Archibald, CEO of Apex Distribution Ouaknine will oversee the firm’s strategy across digital markets infrastructure and wealth distribution. In this role, he focuses on expanding relationships with digital exchanges, financial…
DataFi Appoints Flannery to Lead Institutional Markets and Ecosystems
DataFi Grouph has appointed Heather Leigh Flannery as its new Head of Institutional Markets and Canton Network/Ethereum Ecosystems. In this role, Flannery is tasked with leading the company’s commercial launch, expanding its footprint in the US market, managing strategic partnerships and driving policy and regulatory engagement across the institutional finance sector. The appointment serves as a strategic…
Accenture Taps Bob Zeglarski as Principal Director – Digital Assets
Consulting firm Accenture has recruited Bob Zeglarski as Principal Director – Digital Assets. He was most recently Associate General Counsel and Executive Director for Digital Assets at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC). In his new role, Zeglarski will help to guide institutions “through complex regulatory landscapes while designing and implementing scalable, future-proof digital…
Former SEC Commissioner Roisman Joins Fireblocks
Blockchain infrastructure provider Fireblocks has appointed former Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Elad Roisman as its new Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer and General Counsel, Regulatory. In this Washington, D.C.-based role, Roisman will oversee the company’s global regulatory strategy and lead policy engagement with lawmakers. His appointment comes as Fireblocks expands its services past…
Jason Rozovsky Expands Clifford Chance’s Digital Assets Team
Global law firm Clifford Chance has expanded its US digital assets and private capital team with the appointment of Jason Rozovsky as counsel to its Funds & Asset Management group in New York. Rozovsky brings more than a decade of experience in the enterprise blockchain and digital assets sectors, where he has provided strategic transactional,…
Coinbase Appoints Builder Witoff as CTO
Digital asset platform provider Coinbase has a new CTO in Rob Witoff, a veteran technology builder who originally joined the company in 2014 and then rejoined in 2024. Witoff says that in 2009 he got “hooked on Bitcoin empowering builders with programmable money” and that as CTO his goal is to make Coinbase “the best…
Consensys Suspends Metamask Releases Due to Contractor’s North Korea Links
Ethereum specialist Consensys suspended releases of its popular MetaMask wallet earlier this year after determining that a contractor with links to North Korea had access to its code for about a month. The unnamed contractor, who worked via a third-party service provider, was determined to have made contributions to MetaMask-related code. Consensys – which reported…
Bank of America Appoints Sonali Theisen to Head its Digital Assets Platform
Band of America has named Sonali Theisen ?as ?head of its global digital assets platform. Based in New York City, she will combine her new role, which is to “oversee design, development, scaling and governance of the bank’s digital-assets platform,” with her current responsibilities as head ?of ?Global Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities E?trading and…
Broadridge Taps Mark Nichols as Co-President of Digital Assets
Broadridge Financial Solutions has recruited Mark Nichols to be Co-President of its Digital Assets business unit. Nichols, who joints from EY where he was a Partner, will lead Broadridge’s strategy, product development, and execution in the tokenisation and digital asset arena. He will work alongside Co-President German Soto, who adds the Co-President title to his Chief Product Officer role….
Ethereum Foundation Sheds Staff, Researchers Depart to Launch Ethlab
The Ethereum Foundation is cutting approximately 20% of its staff in a reorganisation that will reduce its operating budget by 40% and slow a drain on its treasury funds. The resulting organization will focus on enterprise engagement, financial infrastructure and policy coordination, as well as continuing work on censorship resistance and self-sovereign architecture. Meanwhile, five…
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,…
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