Crypto exchanges are evolving into multi-asset financial infrastructure. Explore the implications for wealth managers, traditional brokers and neobanks...
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) releases framework for fund tokenisation, signalling path towards FULLY ONCHAIN fund operating models. Key takeaways...
Tokenized funds will NOT reach trillions in AUM through product innovation alone. They require institutional-grade operating infrastructure behind them. State Street is now building the infrastructure layer to solve it.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the official nonpartisan research arm of Congress, published a detailed overview of decentralized finance (DeFi), offering one of the clearest windows yet into how U.S. lawmakers are being educated on the role of DeFi within financial markets.
In a bombshell report, BIS explained crypto exchanges replicate core banking and capital markets functions, but without equivalent regulation, transparency or safeguards. Key takeaways...
Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart Group, Cashlink along with 30+ European market participants just called for urgent reform of the EU’s DLT Pilot Regime. Key points...
Aave, the biggest DeFi platform accounting for 25% of the $100B of value locked in DeFi, saw its TVL tumble from $25B to $20B as one of its lending product suffered a $290M hack last night.
German bank KfW plans to actively switch blockchain infrastructure and security registrar during the lifecycle of a live tokenized bond to stress-test DLT infrastructure resilience.
Deutsche Borse has invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken, as the Frankfurt stock exchange operator moves to offer access to a wider array of securities over blockchain rails. The deal, which gives Deutsche Börse a 1.5% fully diluted stake in the company.
The Staff of the Division of Trading and Markets of the SEC issues statement clarifying when digital interfaces (apps, front-ends, wallets) trigger broker-dealer registration. Key takeaways:
ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone laid out the vision for a tokenzied future for the bloc in a recent speech titled Building the Rails for Europe’s Tokenised Financial Markets. Key takeaways:
