The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) and Société Générale have completed the admission of the first financial instruments registered on a public DLT platform on LuxSE’s Securities Official List. The three sets of security tokens admitted on LuxSE SOL are digital covered bonds (OFH tokens) and structured products that have been issued and deployed by SG’s…
Category: Digital Assets
Fireblocks hits USD8bn valuation
Fireblocks, the U.S.-based crypto services provider in which BNY Mellon has a stake, has raised USD550m in Series E funding. This brings its valuation to USD8bn, making Fireblocks the highest-valued digital asset infrastructure provider in the world. This follows the recent USD350m fundraising round by Anchorage Digital, the U.S.-based crypto custody platform, valuing the business…
IHS Markit partners with METACO
IHS Markit, the UK-based provider of information, analytics and solutions, has partnered with METACO, the Swiss-based provider of software and infrastructure to the digital asset industry. The partnership aims to deliver post-trade securities processing capabilities for digital assets. IHS Markit’s post-trade securities processing platform will be integrated with METACO Harmonize, a secure digital asset system,…
Bosonic hires Jason Nabi as CRO
Bosonic, a U.S.-based decentralised financial market infrastructure (dFMI) business with a real-time clearing and settlement service for crypto and digital assets, has hired Jason Nabi as chief revenue officer, a newly created position. Nabi reports into Bosonic CEO Rosario Ingargiola. Nabi has worked at Euroclear, HSBC, BNP Paribas and SGSS, and was most recently an…
UnionBank to implement METACO Harmonize
METACO, a provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has announced that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is implementing its digital asset management services. UnionBank will leverage Harmonize, METACO’s digital asset orchestration system, to manage its digital asset operations. Harmonize enables institutions to manage a range of end-to-end digital asset…
Gemini acquires Omniex
Gemini, the crypto firm founded by the Winklevoss brothers, has acquired Omniex, a trading technology platform that provides order, execution, and portfolio management system solutions for institutional crypto trading. Omniex was founded by CEO Hu Liang and chief strategy officer John Burnett, both of whom worked at State Street. As part of this acquisition, the…
Anchorage Digital hires CRO
Anchorage Digital Bank, America’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, has appointed Rachel Anderika as its first chief risk officer. Aderika, who worked at the OCC as a bank examiner, was most recently at Promontory Financial Group, a bank regulatory consulting firm owned by IBM. She helped found Promontory’s digital assets risk and compliance team,…
Tokeny partners with Inveniam
Tokeny, the Luxembourg-based tokenisation platform that is backed by Euronext., has formed a partnership with Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc., a U.S.-based SaaS company delivering trust, transparency and completeness of data to private market assets. The partnership includes a EUR5m (USD5.7m) investment by Inveniam, Apex, and K20 Fund. The partnership aims to fully unlock asset liquidity…
Swiss market tests CBDC integration
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and SIX, Switzerland’s main provider of financial infrastructure services, have concluded the second phase of Project Helvetia, which looks toward a future with more tokenised financial assets based on distributed ledger technology coexisting with today’s systems. SNB and five commercial banks – Citi, Credit…
BlockFi hires COO & CTO
BlockFi, a U.S.-based crypto financial services company, has made two senior appointments. Alexander Grigoryan has joined as the chief technology officer and will oversee all global product development and technology strategy. Prior to BlockFi, Grigoryan led product engineering at Skillz, a mobile games platform, and before that held senior engineering and developer roles at Walmart…