Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the digital asset exchange and central securities depository (CSD), in partnership with F10, a 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 the…
Category: Digital Assets
Sudrania rebrands
Sudrania Fund Services, the U.S.-based administrator, has rebranded as Formidium.
SDX partners with Fireblocks
SDX Web3 Services, SIX Digital Exchange’s Web3 unit, has formed a partnership with Fireblocks, the digital asset and crypto technology platform, to provide financial institutions and institutional investors with a set of infrastructure services for the distributed economy. Initially, this partnership will focus on delivering an institutional custody solution for digital assets, providing a transition…
SG-FORGE partners with METACO
Société Générale – FORGE (SG – FORGE), a subsidiary of Société Générale, which provides issuers and investors with end-to-end services to issue, invest and manage digital-native security tokens registered on public blockchains, has selected METACO, the Swiss-based provider of digital asset management technology and infrastructure, to orchestrate its digital asset custody operations. The partnership enables…
CACEIS allies with Taurus
CACEIS has signed an agreement with Taurus, a Swiss company that focuses on the digital assets and blockchain space, to use its platform. CACEIS’ objective is to offer secure custody of digital assets using Taurus-PROTECT, including automated corporate action processing, dividend payments and Smart Contract management, digital asset issuance and tokenisation on blockchain using Taurus-CAPITAL,…
Citi hires new data chief
Citi has hired Joe Bonanno as global head of data, digital and innovation for its securities services business. Bonanno joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently head of analytics and data strategy, architecture, and platforms for its wealth management division. Fiona Horsewill, global head of data and digital, Michael Hlava, global head of…
Northern Trust combines digital and traditional asset services
Northern Trust has established a digital assets and financial markets group, led by Justin Chapman, currently global head of market advocacy, innovation and research. The new group combines the teams responsible for supporting digital asset markets and the traditional network management teams.
Citi partners with METACO
Citi has selected METACO to develop and pilot digital asset custody capabilities. Citi intends to integrate METACO’s bank-grade digital asset custody and orchestration platform, Harmonize, into its existing infrastructure, to develop and pilot digital asset custody capabilities.
SDX appoints head of operations
SIX Digital Exchange has appointed Martin Vetsch as head of operations. He will join the SDX executive board. In his role, he will be responsible for client onboarding, client support and SDX’s day-to-day operations. He was previously at VP Bank.
Zodia hires head of sales
Richard Clark has joined Zodia Custody as head of sales & partnerships. Zodia Custody, which is registered in the UK by the FCA as a crypto asset business, is owned by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust. Clark previously spent 15 years at Merrill Lynch.