Month: July 2022

Jackie Rose has joined Cowen Digital as director, institutional sales. working with the PolySign and MG Stover teams to offer the full suite of execution, custody, fund administration and prime brokerage services, including research and cap intro. Rose was previously head of institutional business development at Blockchain.com. Launched in March 2022, Cowen Digital is the…

Patrick Clancy has joined Polysign, the digital assets infrastructure provider, as head of digital asset strategy, based in San Francisco. He was most recently MD, digital assets at Armanino LLP. Polysign recently raised USD53m following tits agreement to acquire MG Stover, a fund services provider to the alternatives sector.

Bosonic, the infrastructure (dFMI) provider for real-time digital assets clearing and settlement, has appointed Julie Briand as head of client success and Sarthak Jain as regional manager of institutional sales. Both roles are based in London, UK. Briand was previously at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, whilst Jain joins from Binance.

Digivault, the UK-regulated digital asset custody provider, has entered into a partnership with poundtoken.io, the first UK-regulated stablecoin that is 100pct backed by GBP. The recently launched stablecoin, poundtoken, is known by the ticker “GBPT”, and is issued by blackfridge, the Isle of Man-based fintech company. KPMG has been appointed as its auditors, whose monthly…

Hex Trust, an Asia-based custodian of digital assets, has expanded to Europe by opening its first European office in Milan, Italy. The establishment of the first office in the EU is part of Hex Trust’s expansion strategy in Europe, in anticipation of the forthcoming implementation of the Markets in Cryptoassets (MiCA) regulation that is expected…

BNP Paribas has structured, tokenised and distributed a bond, the proceeds of which aim at refinancing a solar energy project sponsored by EDF through its subsidiary, EDF ENR. This native digital asset, issued on the public blockchain, represents the first renewable energy bond tokenisation in the project financing market. For this transaction, the BNP Paribas…

Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the digital asset exchange and central securities depository (CSD), in partnership with F10, a global fintech, and Aequitec, a digital share register and cap table company, have completed the first tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on distributed ledger technology. F10 will issue its shares with…

Archax, a regulated digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian based in the UK, has selected METACO, the Swiss-based provider of digital asset custody and orchestration technology. Archax is deploying its technology on IBM Cloud in order to leverage the confidential computing capabilities of IBM’s digital asset infrastructure. To expand its offering, Archax will fully integrate…