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A pivotal year for the crypto industry

For both Ripple and the broader digital asset space, 2024 has been a landmark year, says Cassie Craddock, managing director of UK and Europe at Ripple, who highlights progress in the crypto space along with the organisation’s own milestones.

Sibos 2026: Standard Chartered’s Ying Ying Tan

As custody becomes increasingly digital, Standard Chartered’s Ying Ying Tan explains why trust must now be earned in every interaction, and why technology can deliver efficiency but only people can deliver trust.

‘The most attention for your dollar’: Jack Seibald on Marex’s standout year

Marex’s prime services business has spent the past year moving up the value chain, adding new services, entering new markets and winning larger clients. Jack Seibald, managing director and global co-head of prime services and outsourced trading, tells Global Custodian how the firm is carving out a unique position in the prime brokerage sector between the boutiques and the bulge brackets, and highlights what’s next for the Marex prime services team.

Building the infrastructure for institutional digital assets

Following Taurus’ win for Innovation in Digital Asset Market Infrastructure at the Global Custodian Leaders in Custody awards, Lamine Brahimi, co-founder and managing partner, discusses the growing institutional adoption of digital assets, the launch of Taurus-NETWORK, and why security, interoperability and regulated infrastructure will define the next phase of the market.

‘We saw a clear gap’: How Dovetail built an independent asset servicing business in India

Dovetail’s founders, Dev Sampat, Mahesh Shekdar and Vivek Singhania, identified an opportunity in India’s financial ecosystem: asset servicing dominated by banks with competing interests. Drawing on global models and deep regulatory expertise, the firm aims to offer a conflict-free, technology-driven asset servicing alternative as India’s asset management industry expands exponentially.