Graphene Investor Services, a digital investment services matrix, has selected Bosonic as its provider for digital assets solutions. Bosonic is a U.S.-based decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI) business, The Bosonic Network enables Graphene’s clients – family offices, private banks and wealth management firms – to access the digital assets markets without incurring any counterparty credit…
Month: July 2022
Zodia Markets granted FCA registration
Zodia Markets, a UK-based cryptoasset exchange and brokerage for institutional clients backed by Standard Chartered, has received cryptoasset registration from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and has officially launched its institutional crypto exchange and brokerage business. Zodia Markets’ registration marks the first time a crypto trading business backed by a leading international bank has…
Komainu gets green light in Dubai
Komainu, the C.I.-based regulated digital asset custody provider, has been granted provisional regulatory approval from the Government of Dubai‘s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to commence operational readiness even as the application goes through the warranted due diligence in accordance with VARA requirements. Komainu is backed by Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, digital asset manager…
Copper strikes custody deal with holoride
Copper, the UK-based digital assets custodian, has entered into a custody partnership with holoride, the Munich-based technology startup specialising in in-vehicle entertainment. Spun out from Audi in 2018 – which holds a minority stake in the startup – holoride builds a first-of-its-kind immersive media platform for moving vehicles. The unique approach of synchronising the vehicle’s…
BBVA, BME, IDB and Iberclear collaborate on first DLT bond issuance in Spain
BME, the Spanish stock exchange operator, has collaborated with Iberclear, BBVA and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), to complete the first bond issuance in Spain listed in a regulated market and registered using blockchain technology developed by ioBuilders. This platform could serve as a model for future issuances in Spain and in Latin America and…
Layla Amjadi joins Gemini as VP of product
Gemini, the U.S.-based crypto services provider, has hired Layla Amjadi as VP of product. She joins from Meta (Facebook), where she spent nine years, including seven at Instagram, where she was the founder and product director of Instagram Shopping.
Coins.ph partners with Fireblocks for custody
Coins.ph, the Philippines-based cryptocurrency service provider, has partnered with Fireblocks. Leveraging Fireblocks’ latest MPC-based solutions, Coins.ph will improve the security, efficiency, and flexibility of transactions and exchanges of digital assets on the Coins.ph platform, as well as lowering operational costs as the company grows. MPC-CMP is blockchain agnostic, which will allow Coins.ph to add support…
SDX partners with Aktionariat
Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the regulated digital securities Financial Markets Infrastructure (FMI), and Aktionariat, a technology provider for digitised private shares in Switzerland, have formed a partnership aimed at further developing the digital ecosystem for issuers and institutional investors. SDX and Aktionariat will partner to tackle one of the biggest challenges that growing companies…
BNP Paribas selects Fireblocks & METACO
BNP Paribas Securities Services has selected two fintechs – Fireblocks and METACO – to develop its digital asset custody offering and help clients issue, transfer and safekeep regulated digital assets. BP2S has selected Fireblocks as its hot wallet, tokenisation, and connectivity infrastructure layer. As a first step, BP2S will use Fireblocks’ solution in its ongoing…
Gemini granted VASP status in Ireland
Gemini, the New York-based digital assets specialist, is the first company to be registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) by the Central Bank of Ireland. The VASP registration follows Gemini’s Electronic Money Institution (EMI) authorisation in February 2022, also from the Central Bank of Ireland. Crypto investors will now be able to access…