Market Infrastructure

Swift has activated its new blockchain-based ledger for live cross-border payment trials with 17 global banks. It comes as financial institutions increasingly modernize systems to...

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has said tokenisation and digital‑asset infrastructure are now central to the next phase of capital‑market evolution, marking a...

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...

Citi has executed a market-first with its launch of the Digital Depositary Receipts on private shares, a model to broaden access to private markets...

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, will enable retail investors globally to access US-listed initial public offerings at the IPO price. Through the xStocks tokenised equities framework, customers of...

Progress Together has launched a new sector‑wide campaign, Making the Invisible Visible, aimed at identifying and addressing the class‑based barriers that continue to shape...

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...

Interoperability advances are pushing institutional tokenisation into its next phase, according to leaders at Swift and State Street Investment Management.Speaking at the Financial Times'...

LMAX Group has launched Kiosk, an interface designed to let institutions accept, custody and deploy digital assets as cross‑asset collateral across its trading ecosystem.The...

Bullish has agreed to acquire Equiniti in a $4.2 billion transaction that will combine a regulated, blue‑chip transfer agent with a blockchain‑native tokenisation platform,...

London Stock Exchange Group has signalled a decisive shift towards a digitally‑driven market infrastructure strategy, using its Q1 trading update today to highlight progress...

Ethereum is increasingly being positioned as the default coordination layer for institutional digital asset activity, as the network evolves beyond its origins in crypto-native...

Regulatory strategy and regulatory progression should be assessed as separate measures of market clarity, according to panellists at Paris Blockchain Week.On a panel discussing...

Digital infrastructure is reshaping access to private markets as institutions look beyond traditional public allocations and towards solutions that unlock liquidity. During an exclusive PBW side event hosted...

Ondo Finance, Clearstream and 360X have agreed a partnership to connect tokenised securities issued on public blockchains with regulated European trading and post‑trade infrastructure,...

Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a $200m stake in Payward, Inc., the company behind global crypto platform Kraken, deepening a partnership aimed at building out...