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…
Year: 2022
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…
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Jackie Rose joins Cowen Digital
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 joins Polysign
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 adds to client-facing team
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 to support blackfridge’s poundtoken
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 opens in Italy
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 tokenises EDF bond
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…