Joe McGrath
Custody
Standard Chartered targets Singapore custody
Standard Chartered is expanding its digital asset custody strategy in Asia, announcing plans to offer custody services for selected cryptoassets, stablecoins and tokenised real-world...
Regulation
IMF calls for quicker rules on tokenised markets
The International Monetary Fund has warned that tokenisation’s rapid growth risks hitting a ceiling unless regulators and market‑infrastructure providers accelerate work on the legal...
Investment Banking
HMT names six banks to run DIGIT pilot
The UK government has appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as Joint Lead Managers for its first digitally native...
Investments
Fidelity sees demand grow for tokenised collateral
Fidelity International says investors are increasingly using tokenised assets as collateral.It comes as regulatory clarity and growing institutional adoption accelerate the shift towards on-chain...
Custody
BNY expands digital asset custody in Europe
BNY has expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform in Europe, becoming one of the first global systemically important banks to offer regulated digital asset...
Payments
Why collaboration will be key to digital asset adoption
Bringing digital assets further into the financial mainstream will require payment providers, insurers, brokers and regulators to understand how their respective roles fit together...
Regulation
FCA: Innovation at heart of capital markets reform
The Financial Conduct Authority has said innovation is now a structural pillar of the UK’s capital‑markets reform agenda, with tokenisation, digital infrastructure and new...
Stablecoins
Fipto and Spiko bring fund yield to stablecoin balances
Fipto, a stablecoin-powered B2B payments and treasury platform, has partnered with Spiko to let corporate clients invest idle balances in regulated UCITS funds.
Clients can...
