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FIS and Fireblocks are teaming to provide enterprise-grade digital asset investing and wallet technology, lending and decentralised finance (DeFi) to FIS capital market clients.
Leveraging the Fireblocks platform, FIS capital markets clients can move, store and issue digital assets, and gain access to self-custody digital asset wallet technology, an asset transfer network and tools to access staking, DeFi and other more advanced forms of digital asset exposure.
FIS continues to expand its portfolio of crypto and digital asset offerings for clients across multiple markets, including card-to-crypto and other money movement services for four of the top five cryptocurrency exchanges. The
FalconX, a digital assets and cryptocurrency platform for institutional investors, says it has become the first and only cryptocurrency swap dealer registered with the National Futures Association (NFA) and one of the first crypto-focused Primary Level Members of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA).
The registration solidifies FalconX as the most comprehensive prime broker for digital assets, offering the only platform that gives institutional investors access to the fast-growing OTC crypto derivatives market to conduct safe and regulated trading.
With this new registration, FalconX clients can now enter into forwards, options and swap transactions with the industry’s most
Generali Investments – through Generali Insurance Asset Management, on behalf of the French company Generali IARD – has purchased on the secondary market security tokens of the digitally native bond issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB) in April 2021, with Société Générale as Joint lead Manager.
The transaction was performed over the blockchain infrastructure of Ethereum through the Société Générale-Forge solution. The size of the transaction is €0.5 million.
This is the first market transaction using the public Blockchain performed by the Generali Group and among the first experiments in Europe.
Cboe Global Markets, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, plans to list S&P 500 Index (SPX) Weeklys options with Tuesday expirations beginning Monday 18 April, and Thursday expirations beginning Wednesday 11 May.
These new listings build on the success of Cboe’s popular SPX Weeklys options, which currently include Monday, Wednesday and Friday-expiries, and will expand the product suite to provide expirations every trading day of the week.
Trading technology expert George Tsimperopoulos has joined hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management as head of execution services, just three years after arriving at Goldman Sachs as as a managing director in 2019, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Prior to joining Goldman, Tsimperopoulos, who describes himself as a specialist in low latency equities electronic trading technology, was co-chief technology officer at Capula Investment Management.
AxeTrading, a fixed income trading software company, has appointed Greville Lucking as its new chief executive officer.
Lucking, who has been with the firm since 2018 in the role of head of customer support & integration, is an experienced business leader within the fixed income technology sector, having been the chief operating officer of EMBonds until its acquisition by BGC Partners.
He has previously held senior roles at Formicary and prior to that was with WestLB.
Muddy Waters Capital (Muddy Waters), an activist investment firm, has appointed Marta Obando as head of investor relations and marketing.
Confidence levels among hedge fund mangers remain resilient despite the war in Ukraine, Russian economic sanctions, and global inflationary concerns, according to AIMA.
Professional investors want to see improvements in regulatory compliance and custodial services for tokenised assets, new global research from tokenisation platform Token City shows.
The study, conducted among professional investors in France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK who are responsible for around $546.5 billion in assets under management, found around a third (31%) of professional investors are very concerned about regulatory compliance in the market while 60% are quite concerned and just 9% are not concerned.
Moreover, more than half (51%) are very concerned about custodial services for tokenised assets while 24% are quite concerned. Just 22% are not
As the US government advances its analysis into the risks and benefits of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has developed a first prototype to explore how a CBDC might operate in the US clearing and settlement infrastructure leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT).
The prototype, known as Project Lithium, will measure the benefits of a CBDC and inform the future design of the firm’s clearing and settlement offerings. It will also explore how a CBDC could enable atomic settlement, a conditional settlement that occurs if delivery and payment are both received at the
