Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto-focused branch of the major asset manager, is looking to boost its team with the addition of 10 new blockchain professionals. Posted within the last two days, the new positions include a range of leadership...
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A blockchain and cryptocurrency firm is soon to go public on Nasdaq in the U.S., according to Bloomberg. In a report Wednesday, the news provider cited sources “familiar with the matter” as saying that Diginex Ltd., a company providing...
A new trading platform for security tokens has launched with backing from Singapore Exchange (SGX), the country’s public stock market, and technical support from ethereum startup ConsenSys. The 1X platform has gone live Wednesday with its first listing of...
Brian McNulty, a former R3 managing director who left the company in January, has emerged from the bushes with a blockchain project to streamline the fund management industry. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, FundAdminChain (FAC), which is helmed by McNulty,...
The Takeaway High-frequency trading (HFT), a longtime and controversial practice in traditional markets, is becoming commonplace in crypto, too. Placing trading servers physically close to exchanges’ matching engines can win an edge on speed. This helps HFT firms make...
BTG Pactual, Brazil’s fifth largest bank, plans to utilize the Tezos blockchain for security token offerings potentially worth $1 billion. For the effort, BTG – also Brazil’s largest standalone investment bank – will team with Dubai-based asset manager Dalma Capital....
The Winklevoss-owned cryptocurrency exchange Gemini will apply for a broker-dealer license from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), CoinDesk has learned. This is the first step toward becoming an approved Alternative Trading System, where customers can lawfully swap digital...
Xetra, a Deutsche Börse-operated trading venue for financial assets such as stocks, bonds and funds, has just listed its first blockchain company. As reported by DGAP.de on Monday, shares in the firm, Advanced Blockchain AG, will be tradeable on Xetra...
Goldman Sachs may ultimately take part in the crypto disruption of finance, according to its CEO, David Solomon. In interview with French news source Les Echos on Friday, Solomon said the bank “absolutely’ could follow JPMorgan Chase in launching a cryptocurrency....
Public blockchain tokens will soon be trading on a major securities exchange. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Swiss security token firm BlockState plans to “passport” half a dozen ERC-20 tokens from ethereum, the second-largest public blockchain, to Corda, the private distributed ledger...