Digital Asset hires new chief strategy officer
Digital Asset looks to steam ahead after Blythe Masters, the former CEO and a long-time face of blockchain innovation, stepped down at the end of last year.
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HSBC Securities Services to restructure innovation franchise
HSS's innovation function involved exploring new partnerships with FinTechs and researching the use of new technologies.
Global blockchain market to reach nearly half a trillion dollars by 2030, IHS Markit
IHS Markit expects revenues could reach $462 billion from using blockchain technology across global financial services.
Credit Suisse processes fund transaction on DLT platform
A number of custodians and asset servicing providers have trialled using blockchain platforms to process fund transactions.
The DIY investment model
Tokenisation is opening up a whole new world of tradable assets, along with revolutionising the way the market can trade traditional products. Jonathan Watkins investigates.
Varying definitions of safekeeping holding back custody for crypto-assets, finds ESMA
ESMA report highlights lack of harmonised definition of safekeeping and record-keeping of ownership of securities at an EU-level.
ESG framework and adoption of DLT by regulators among biggest impacts for 2019
Supervisory technology (SupTech) is being explored by some regulatory bodies to overcome challenges of divergent reporting models between countries.
Calastone set to shift entire network to blockchain in 2019
New platform will digitalise trading, settlement and distribution of funds through distributed ledger technology.
Singapore Exchange and national regulator develop tokenised asset settlement
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and Singapore Exchange developed two Delivery versus Payment capabilities for the settlement of tokenised assets across different blockchain platforms.
Northern Trust processes first DLT capital call for venture capital fund
Northern Trust launched the first commercial blockchain solution for private equity administration in 2017, and earlier this year won US patents for two additional services on the platform.