Crypto custodian Anchorage has secured conditional approval for a national trust charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), making it the first national “digital asset bank” in the U.S. The safekeeping, management and trading...
Digital asset custodian Anchorage has nabbed a trade operations veteran from Celsius Network to manage the risks facing its $4 billion crypto vault. The new hire, Asaf Iram, said he will “connect the dots” among Anchorage’s financing, lending, custody...
Crypto services provider Anchorage said it received third-party certification that the controls supporting its financial reporting and operations are adequately secure. The SOC 1 Type 1 report is granted after an independent third-party audit of a company’s internal systems...
Remember when crypto exchanges were strong-armed into delisting privacy coins like zcash (ZEC) in order to protect their brittle banking covenants? But crypto keeps moving, and today ZEC is making its debut within the bustling decentralized exchange (DEX) ecosystem...
Crypto custodians are in a race to build the next State Street or BNY Mellon. There are only a handful of these types of large custody banks and most of them have been around for hundreds of years. But...
Anchorage now has six executives in its C-suite, hiring a head of finance and head of sales with experience in both tech and Wall Street. Julie Veltman, who’s joining the crypto custodian as head of finance, has issued new...
INX Ltd. has entered the home stretch for its $130 million initial public offering (IPO), potentially the largest registered securities sale by a company in the blockchain sector. The cryptocurrency and security token exchange startup is targeting an April...
The Libra Association announced Thursday it had formed a technical steering committee to coordinate the design of the Libra platform. The new committee, composed of Anchorage co-founder Diogo Monica, Calibra core product lead George Cabrera III, Bison Trails founder...
This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Diogo Monica is president and co-founder of Anchorage, crypto’s premier custodian for institutional...
Since first being announced in June, Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency has drawn the ire of lawmakers and regulators worldwide. But, according to sources close the Libra Association, that was to be expected. “We always knew this was something that...