Tagged: securities

November 18, 2025 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DigiFT, a digital asset exchange for institutional-grade real-world assets (RWAs), and SBI Holdings (Nasdaq : SBHGF), one of Japan’s financial groups, announced the establishment of a joint venture company, SBI Onchain, in order to enable the ongoing adoption of onchain finance across Japanese and international markets…. Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 1:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group, Inc., a firm focused on the blockchain sector and tokenization for capital markets, announced that its subsidiary, tZERO Digital Asset Securities, LLC, reached a new milestone in its role as a Special Purpose Broker-Dealer (SPBD) permitted to custody tokenized securities. A year after… Read More

July 7, 2025 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced that its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary “processed through its Government Securities Division (GSD) a new peak volume of USD$11.8 Trillion in cleared transactions on June… Read More

June 29, 2025 @ 12:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas announces that its Securities Services business, a global custodian with EUR 14.3 trillion in assets under custody1, has entered an agreement with HSBC for the acquisition of the custody and depositary bank business of HSBC Continental Europe S.A., Germany, “subject to regulatory approvals.”… Read More

June 13, 2025 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world’s derivatives and securities exchange network, announced it has migrated its Cboe Digital Exchange futures offerings onto Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) on June 9, 2025. With the Financially Settled Bitcoin (FBT) and Financially Settled Ether (FET) futures now… Read More

June 11, 2025 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Congressman William Timmons, a Republican from South Carolina, has fired off a letter to newly appointed SEC Chair Paul Atkins, demanding documents that shed light on the agency’s inconsistent handling of Ethereum (ETH) under former Chair Gary Gensler. Sent on June 10, 2025, this move… Read More

April 4, 2025 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital Banking Solutions, an integrator of banking solutions, is partnering with SIX Group, a key player in financial market infrastructure in Switzerland, providing services in securities transactions, financial information, and payments. This partnership is part of the evolution of CapitalPrivate, their digitalization platform dedicated to… Read More

March 17, 2025 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The painfully long-standing legal battle between the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple Labs, which began in December 2020, appears to be approaching a critical juncture. Recent developments suggest that the case, centered on whether XRP constitutes an unregistered security, could finally conclude,… Read More

March 7, 2025 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Superstate is pleased to announce that they have now officially registered Superstate Services LLC, their transfer agent, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Superstate says that it is laser-focused on its mission to “modernize finance through blockchain technology.” This step further advances tokenized… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pirum, the tech partner for securities finance automation and collateral management, announced that Sharegain, a securities lending fintech, has gone live on Pirum TradeConnect. Stuart Jarvis, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Sharegain, said: “Pirum TradeConnect delivers the simplicity and efficiency the market has been waiting… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UniCredit has recently announced plans to bring its back-office activities for securities services across Italy and Germany in house, standardizing its set-up and suppliers in a move that is expected to create more than 200 new professional roles. As explained in the update, the internalization… Read More

November 26, 2024 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group Inc., a firm focused on technology solutions for capital markets, has announcesdthe launch of tZERO Digital Asset Securities as a new Special Purpose Broker-Dealer for digital asset securities custody. Investors are now reportedly able to on-board and open their custodial brokerage account with… Read More

July 30, 2024 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a strategic move to extend its global footprint, Toss Securities, a securities firm with a data-driven investment platform based in South Korea, is set to establish a new corporate office in the United States. Toss Securities is a subsidiary of the South Korean Fintech,… Read More

July 14, 2024 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bridgewise, a financial research intelligence platform for global securities, has revealed a new fund analysis solution that aims to provide deeper levels of detail into funds and their underlying assets. Powered by AI, including machine learning and advanced language models, Bridgewise will enable deep analysis… Read More

July 11, 2024 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Prime Technologies, LLC, an aspiring provider of digital asset technology for financial institutions, has listed a Reg D offering on tZERO. The company claims that its “Tokenet” platform and Prime Solutions products can enable digital asset management. As the offering is under Reg D,… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), through its Financial Supervisors Academy (FSA), recently carried out a session focused on “The Future of Securities Supervision: A 2035 Outlook.” Chaired by MFSA Chief Officer Supervision, Christopher P. Buttigieg, the discussion brought together figures from European Union regulatory… Read More

March 28, 2024 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) will have to face the Securities and Exchange Commmission’s (SEC) lawsuit, a Judge has recently ruled. A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday (March 27, 2024) stated that the US SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase may proceed. However, the presiding judge… Read More

October 26, 2023 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is alleging that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has overstepped in the firm’s most recent effort to dismiss the ongoing lawsuit. Coinbase’s response to the SEC‘s lawsuit filed earlier this year is that not everything qualifies as a security…. Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X in coordination with Polygon Labs is pleased to announce 21X is building an ESMA regulated market infrastructure for tokenized securities “on the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain.” 21X and Polygon Labs are collaborating in order “to advance asset tokenization and trading within the Polygon ecosystem.” Polygon… Read More

October 3, 2023 @ 6:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Brian Steele as Managing Director, President, Clearing & Securities Services, “effective October 2, 2023.” Steele will join the DTCC Management Committee, Management Risk Committee and the Investment Management Committee…. Read More