Market Infrastructure

Arqitech has deployed Canton Token Standard V2 within its Atomic Swap Protocol, enabling institutions to exchange Canton Coin directly with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and...

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...

The Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) has called for a series of legal reforms to support the wider adoption of tokenisation in UK wholesale...

BNY, the world’s largest custodian bank, is developing an always-on settlement system that could enable US Treasury transactions to settle 24 hours a day,...

Tether Gold (XAU₮) has been recognised as an Accepted Spot Commodity by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The...

Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and BlackRock have joined Ondo Finance in DTCC's tokenised securities initiative.It comes as Wall Street accelerates efforts to bring traditional...

The UK government is drawing a direct line between its domestic tokenisation pilots and a new regulatory alignment with the United States, signalling a...

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...