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Gemini, the integrated digital assets platform, now supports Geojam (JAM), Chiliz (CHZ), Metis (METIS), Revv (REVV), Qredo (QRDO), Zebec (ZBC), STEPN (GMT), and Bonfida (FIDA). The tokens are now available for deposits and custody on Gemini, which has recently surpassed 100 supported tokens.

Following the appointment of Apex as administrator, Blockchain.com has named Standard Custody & Trust Company, a PolySign company, as custodian for its new institutional platform, Blockchain.com Asset Management (BCAM). BCAM will deliver a suite of institutional investment products, combining the crypto trading infrastructure, research and security software services of Blockchain.com with Altis Partners’ investment management…

Apex Group has been appointed to provide fund services to Blockchain.com Asset Management (BCAM), a new crypto asset management platform powered by Blockchain.com, with investments managed by Altis Partners, a C.I.-based manager. BCAM’s C.I.-domiciled funds will offer regulated crypto investment products for institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals. The platform is launched…

Covario, the Swiss-based crypto prime brokerage, now offers Tron (TRX) tokens for custody, trading and other services. This brings coverage to 68+ crypto tokens, including five stablecoins, as well as seven FX currencies, tradeable directly via its OTC portal. Tron has a current market cap of USD6.44bn. 87 million users are recorded on Tron’s blockchain.…

SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), which claims to be the world’s first fully regulated FMI digital asset exchange, and daura, a Swiss equity tokenisation platform, have formed a partnership aimed at improving the exchange’s digital issuers ecosystem. Companies on daura will be able to issue digital equity securities seamlessly into SDX’s regulated CSD. Since 2018, by…

PolySign Inc., the U.S.-based digital assets fintech, has agreed to acquire MG Stover, a U.S.-based alternatives administrator with >USD40bn in digital assets under administration, believed to the world’s largest. The acquisition will enable PolySign “to deliver a comprehensive, vertically integrated custody, trading and administration offering to institutional investors for cryptocurrency and digital assets”. PolySign expects…

The Bank of Portugal has authorised Bison Digital Assets to operate a custody and exchange business for virtual (digital) assets. The company, to be created from scratch and to be operated under the Bison Digital brand, is fully owned by Bison Bank. Bison is understood to be the first bank in Portugal to receive this…

Securrency Capital, a broker-dealer based in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has secured a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from ADGM’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) to deal in investments as a matched principal and provide custody for those investments. The license enables Securrency Capital to provide trading of digital assets to a variety of…

Copper, the UK-based provider of services for digital assets, has hired a team of managers for its prime services business. Michael Roberts will lead the new team, joining from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was a managing director and head of the bank’s prime platform for EMEA. Roberts will be joined by former…