Northern Trust has established a digital assets and financial markets group, led by Justin Chapman, currently global head of market advocacy, innovation and research. The new group combines the teams responsible for supporting digital asset markets and the traditional network management teams.
Category: Digital Assets
Citi partners with METACO
Citi has selected METACO to develop and pilot digital asset custody capabilities. Citi intends to integrate METACO’s bank-grade digital asset custody and orchestration platform, Harmonize, into its existing infrastructure, to develop and pilot digital asset custody capabilities.
SDX appoints head of operations
SIX Digital Exchange has appointed Martin Vetsch as head of operations. He will join the SDX executive board. In his role, he will be responsible for client onboarding, client support and SDX’s day-to-day operations. He was previously at VP Bank.
Zodia hires head of sales
Richard Clark has joined Zodia Custody as head of sales & partnerships. Zodia Custody, which is registered in the UK by the FCA as a crypto asset business, is owned by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust. Clark previously spent 15 years at Merrill Lynch.
Fireblocks certified by ISO across three categories
Fireblocks, the provider of digital asset and crypto technology, has been certified by the International Organization for Standards (ISO) in the categories of security (ISO 27001), cloud (ISO 27017) and privacy (ISO 27018). Fireblocks claims that it is the only crypto tech company to achieve all three certifications.
Copper & Frick named as custodians for new 21Shares ETP
21Shares, the Swiss-based manager that claims to be the world’s largest issuer of crypto ETPs, has launched the 21Shares USD Yield ETP (USDY), which provides exposure to US Dollars while using the collateral (USDC) to seek to generate income from the digital asset lending ecosystem via a fully collateralised ETP structure. Listed on the SIX…
Accelerate appoints Tetra for NFT ETP
Accelerate Financial Technologies Inc., a provider of alternative investment solutions, has selected Tetra Trust Company as custodian for Accelerate’s digital assets. Initially, the Accelerate NFT Fund LP, the first Web3 investment vehicle in Canada, will deploy Tetra’s custody solution which enables clients to store and settle their digital assets within a secure environment. Calgary-based Accelerate…
Cowen Digital to deploy SS&C Eze
Cowen Digital, Cowen Inc.‘s digital asset division, will deploy SS&C Eze‘s institutional OEMS platform to support its clients’ digital asset trading requirements. SS&C Eze’s institutional digital asset trading platform provides broker-agnostic access to institutional liquidity across the market. It also provides market data covering 100+ tokens and 500+ pairs from more than 35 sources, enabling…
Zodia Custody links to Fireblocks
Zodia Custody, the UK-based crypto asset servicing provider for institutional investors, has established a deal with Fireblocks, the U.S.-based provider of digital asset and crypto technology, to enhance Zodia’s’s connectivity offering and give institutional investors direct access to the Fireblocks network, a global crypto capital markets gateway. The integration will allow Zodia’s institutional clients to…
State Street Digital hires senior tech managers
State Street Digital has appointed Rob Otter as head of blockchain engineering and Nitin Gaur as digital technology strategy lead. Otter, based in London reports to Aman Thind, chief technology officer of State Street Digital. Gaur, based in Austin, Texas, will report to Otter. Otter joins State Street from JPMorgan Chase, where he was CTO…