Bybit, the world’s third most visited crypto exchange, has partnered with Talos, an institutional digital asset trading technology specialist, to provide ‘streamlined’ access to institutions looking to get into the crypto space via the Talos platform. The integration combines Talos’s trade infrastructure solutions with Bybit’s access to a wide array of digital assets and enterprise solutions, including trading execution with precision.   Additionally, this new collaboration will boost real-time liquidity.   Bybit experienced steady growth in market share throughout 2022, claiming the no2 spot in futures and perpetuals trading several times year to date. In January alone, Bybit recorded its

McKay Brothers has deployed the lowest latency private bandwidth from Aurora, Illinois to Toronto. McKay’s newest route connects the futures markets at the CME with the cash equity markets of TMX in Toronto in less than 4.3 milliseconds one way.  McKay’s sister company Quincy Data offers select CME data at TMX. The Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service distributes equity indexes, energy and metals futures at the lowest latency.    McKay’s wireless networks have been live in North America since 2012, Europe since 2014 and Asia since 2016. The company’s transpacific network went live last year, connecting the CME with trading

FundGuard, a cloud native and multi-asset class investment accounting platform, has partnered with global financial information provider SIX, to deliver global pricing, market and reference data to asset managers, asset owners, and asset servicers.

Institutional crypto custodian Zodia Custody has increased its coverage for the safekeeping and settlement services of crypto assets to a total of 38 coins and tokens, based on institutional investor customer demand.  According to Zodia, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered, the integration of new coins and tokens will help further expand the opportunities available to institutional investors to participate in the digital asset markets through its fully FCA-registered crypto asset custody services.   Zodia Custody’s expanded coverage now provides safekeeping and settlement services for nine native coins – avalanche, bitcoin, bitcoin cash, cardano, ether, litecoin, polkadot, polygon, and Solana –

Options Technology, a capital markets services provider, has expanded its existing partnership with Digital Reality to provide services to its customers in Singapore via PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Reality’s global data centre platform.  The partnership will aim to provide customers with cost-effective, low-latency access to multi-asset trading environments, enabling next-generation trading methods including algorithmic trading (AT). By deploying in Singapore on Digital Realty’s global data centre platform, PlatformDIGITAL, Options is set to provide its 600-plus customers and partners with ultra-low latency trading capabilities. Options, a long-standing customer and partner of Digital Realty since 2009, is already deployed with Digital Realty in several

Swarm, a regulated blockchain platform, has launched the world’s first on-chain investment offering for Apple, Tesla, and two US Treasury Bond ETFs. The fully asset-backed tokens are available on the Polygon blockchain for both retail and institutional investors, with no minimum investment.  Swarm says this is the first service of its kind for investors looking to access real world assets using digital blockchain technology, while meeting full regulatory requirements. Hedge funds and institutional investors can now access stable and secure global markets 24/7 through Swarm.  The token offering initially includes AAPL and TSLA stock, iShares US treasury bond 0-1 year

Q Securities, an independent MiFID investment firm and brokerage house with offices in Luxembourg and Poland, has launched operations in Malta having secured a licence from the Malta Financial Services Authority to offer depositary services to alternative funds.

Galaxy Digital Holdings, a financial services and investment management specialist in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of GK8, a secure institutional digital asset custody platform, for approximately $44 million. 

TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has launched a new eTrading service, which combines a hosted desktop GUI with interest rates swaps (IRS) venue and workflow integration, pricer API, server hosting and secure connectivity.