Investment Banking
Deutsche Bank backs Google’s financial AI launch
Deutsche Bank has helped develop Google Cloud's new Financial Research Agent.Earlier this year, in its Q1 2026 results, Deutsche Bank said it was investing...
Nomura unit wins crypto services approval
Nomura's Laser Digital Japan has secured approval to provide institutional crypto asset services.It comes as traditional capital markets players continue to respond to the...
Standard Chartered issues digital notes on Euroclear D-FMI
Standard Chartered has become the first G-SIB and the first UK issuer to issue digitally native notes through Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure D-FMI.
The...
DLA Piper advises on Standard Chartered digital asset trades
DLA Piper has advised Standard Chartered on its first live digital asset prime brokerage trades, supporting the bank's pilot transactions with LMAX Digital. The law firm provided legal advice...
Ctrl Alt Secures Irish MiFID Licence
Ctrl Alt Technologies Limited, a tokenisation infrastructure provider, has received MiFID authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI). The authorisation lets Ctrl Alt conduct regulated investment...
How institutions profit from Perps
As regulated crypto perpetual futures edge closer to the US financial mainstream, Wall Street is preparing for what could become one of the most...
JP Morgan securities services Q2 revenue up 17%
JP Morgan’s securities services business posted 17% revenue growth in the second quarter.It comes as the bank pushes deeper into tokenised assets through Kinexys,...
BNY expands relationship with Circle
BNY has launched enhanced stablecoin services allowing institutional clients to store and manage USDC.
It comes as traditional financial institutions continue to use new technologies...
EIB completes first DLT‑native CP on Clearstream’s D7
The European Investment Bank has issued the first DLT‑native commercial paper on Clearstream’s D7 platform, in a €77.5m deal arranged by Citi and taken...
Quantum Computing: What are the basics?
For most people in institutional finance, quantum computing is an entirely abstract concept.In reality, the idea is simple enough: quantum computers use the principles...
Comment: The Pioneer Awards showed market’s maturity
Last night, something remarkable happened at Shakespeare’s Globe.For the first time under the Capital Pioneer banner, we brought together the builders, innovators and visionaries...
JP Morgan backs major Hong Kong crypto IPO
JP Morgan is sponsoring one of Asia’s largest regulated crypto listings as HashKey Holdings launches its Hong Kong initial public offering. The deal is...
BNP Paribas joins consortium to launch euro stablecoin
BNP Paribas has joined a consortium of nine major European banks to form Qivalis, an Amsterdam‑domiciled joint venture that will issue a euro‑denominated stablecoin...
Chris Woolard on finance’s tokenised future
Capital markets are approaching a tipping point. Whether through stablecoins in the US or tokenised assets in Europe, the infrastructure for digital finance is...
Citi Ventures expands digital exposure
Citi Ventures has invested in BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure provider headquartered in San Francisco, in a move that underscores growing institutional interest in regulated...
JP Morgan on rewiring capital markets from within
Despite the media flurry around digitalisation over the past decade, many of the big players within mainstream finance have shied away from the spotlight...
