Parth Gargava has joined BBH as head of digital asset strategy for its investor services business, based in Boston. He joins from Fidelity Investments, as well as teaching engineering of advanced crypto systems at Northeastern University.
Category: Digital Assets
Euroclear hires from Zodia
Euroclear has appointed Usman Ahmad to lead Euroclear’s digital assets strategy, based in the UK. He most recently served as co-founding CEO of Zodia Markets, the institutional digital asset brokerage.
HSBC joins UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox
HSBC Bank Plc has become the first applicant approved by the Bank of England to go live in the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS), part of the UK’s innovation agenda for digital assets. HSBC Orion, HSBC’s digital assets platform, will be able to operate within the DSS as a Digital Securities Depository (DSD) for digitally…
SS&C to launch digital cash settlement
SS&C plans to enable digital cash settlement for tokenised investment transactions using regulated forms of digital cash, including stablecoins and tokenised commercial bank deposits. The plan builds on the launch of SS&C’s live tokenised fund issuance and distribution capabilities earlier this year following the acquisition of Calastone in 2025. SS&C already enables asset managers to…
BNY expands with Circle
BNY has expanded relationship with Circle Internet Group, Inc. as part of new stablecoin enablement capabilities for institutional clients. Circle’s USDC will be the first stablecoin on BNY’s digital asset custody platform, enabling BNY clients to store, transfer, mint and burn USDC. This expands BNY’s role as primary custodian of USDC reserves. BNY clients can…
FundBank rebrands
FundBank Group, a banking provider to the asset management industry, has rebranded to IRACE Digital. The rebrand “marks the group’s shift from a traditional institutional banking platform to an integrated infrastructure provider supporting institutional activity across both traditional and digital asset markets”. Building on FundBank’s existing institutional banking infrastructure, and subject to regulatory approvals, IRACE…
Apex participates in new RE fund
Apex is one of the participants in the launch of a blockchain-native real estate fund, developed in collaboration with Archax, Goldman Sachs, LRC Group, and Ownera. Apex is providing AIFM services through Fundrock LIS, along with fund administration and depositary services of assets other than financial instruments through its Luxembourg office, and bank account services…
Apex supports Fidelity fund launch
Apex is providing transfer agency services to Fidelity International in support of the launch of its first tokenised product, which offers institutional and professional investors 24/7 liquidity. The capabilities are designed for on chain markets and real time processing environments. Apex acted as transfer agent, supporting digital investor onboarding, wallet whitelisting, and transaction processing for…
BNY collaborates for digital asset custody in ADGM
BNY, with Finstreet Limited and ADI Foundation, are collaborating to offer regulated, scalable, institutional-grade digital asset custody in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Finstreet, a digital market infrastructure group and a subsidiary of IHC through Sirius International Holding, and ADI Foundation, an Abu Dhabi-based blockchain infrastructure organisation, will jointly support this initiative. The collaboration is…
NAV wins Bitcoin fund admin mandate
Chicago-based NAV Fund Services has been appointed fund administrator for Nomura-backed Laser Digital‘s upgraded Bitcoin Diversified Yield Fund (BDYF), the first natively tokenised Cayman Bitcoin yield fund. NAV’s appointment extends a three-year relationship between the two companies.