QCP Capital, an Asian digital-asset trading firm, has connected to the trading platform of Seed CX which, through its subsidiaries, offers a licensed exchange for institutional trading and settlement of spot digital asset products and plans to offer a market
Calastone, the global fund transaction network, is to migrate its entire global network of more than 1,700 financial organisations, across 40 global markets, to blockchain in May 2019 via the company’s new Distributed Market Infrastructure (DMI). The migration connects one
Bitwise Asset Management, creator of what it says is the world’s first cryptocurrency index fund, has launched two new low-cost, liquid beta funds, holding bitcoin and ether exclusively. The Bitwise Bitcoin Fund and the Bitwise Ethereum Fund are the
BEQUANT, a cryptocurrency exchange with prime brokerage services, is partnering with Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider; to provide crypto currency market participants with faster access to BEQUANT’s market infrastructure via Avelacom’s low latency network. Through this initiative
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published a new paper setting out five recommendations to deliver supervisory convergence on the regulation of crypto-assets in Europe. The paper’s recommendations are intended to encourage collaboration between regulators in Europe and
NextPrime, a provider of operational and capital efficiency to institutional participants in digital asset markets, has partnered with Asia-Pacific financial services group Crown Financial Services (CFS) to bring service banking, custodianship and multi-currency clearing and settlement solutions to the digital
Tassat, a provider of financial technologies and products for traditional and digital asset markets and Blockfills, a specialist in digital asset electronic market making, trading and prime brokerage, are partnering to introduce an institutional Trade at Settlement (TAS) product for
Digital asset platform Bitfinex and on-demand education and employment marketplace ODEM SA have collaborated to produce a new model of education on the role of digital token in the blockchain-enabled economy. The idea is to provide an innovative token transaction
Luxembourg-based VNX Exchange is joining forces with Sumsub, a scalable solution for KYC/AML regulatory compliance, to stay in line with growing jurisdictional demands and ensure compliance of its platform. As the fifth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) gains its full
Digital asset trading platform trading platform Bitfinex has launched support for the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network is a decentralised system of smart contracts built as a second-layer of the Bitcoin blockchain, enabling custodian-free instant, high-volume micropayments across a network
