Tagged: custody

March 29, 2019 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Legacy Trust Company, a Hong Kong-licensed and Public Registered Trust Company, has formed a partnership with Ledger to provide “institutional-grade custody solutions” for digital assets, according to Ledger. The goal is to “help accelerate the flow of institutional money into digital assets.” As is the… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Omniex, an institutional investment and trading platform for digital assets has extended its integration with industry custody providers to include Kingdom Trust. Kingdom Trust currently has $12 billion in assets under custody. It was the first regulated financial institution to offer qualified custody for digital… Read More

November 15, 2018 @ 7:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Lendingblock, a lending exchange for digital assets, has partnered with Vo1t to provide a cold storage capability for its institutional lending exchange. According to Lendingblock, Vo1t will provide 24/7 custody while simultaneously providing access to digital assets in under 30 minutes. Vo1t will support Lendingblock’s platform… Read More

October 13, 2018 @ 6:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prime Trust, a “blockchain driven trust company” is providing solutions to custody cryptocurrency while also providing various compliance solutions including US security exemptions. This week, Prime Trust announced that it is adding support for Stellar. The company can already custody all ERC 20 tokens including ST-20…. Read More

September 30, 2018 @ 9:00 pm By Steven McClurg and Katie Talati  |  

As the crypto markets have evolved rapidly during the last year and institutional investors (like Arca Funds) have begun to invest, fitting into the existing financial services framework has proven difficult. The primary debate around legacy intermediary systems and how they relate to real money… Read More

September 14, 2018 @ 1:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

BitGo revealed yesterday it has received regulatory approval from the South Dakota Division of Banking  to operate as a public South Dakota Trust Company. BitGo says it is the “first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets.” BitGo offers a custody solution for institutional investors in digital… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 8:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kingdom Trust, a regulated custody agent with over 100,000 clients and $12 billion in assets under custody, is going full crypto. According to a release today, Kingdom Trust has secured insurance covering digital assets via the august name of Lloyds of London. Kingdom Trust is providing… Read More

August 16, 2018 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Copper.co is now offering a custody solution for institutions investing in digital assets. The crypto portfolio management platform says it is offering the “industry’s first server less” co-sign custody solution. Copper management says it expands the crypto market by making transactions safer and less prone… Read More

August 8, 2018 @ 1:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pumped the brakes once again this week on firms offering Bitcoin based ETF. While these exchange traded funds have the potential to expand a far wider audience to the digital asset class, so far regulators have been hesitant to… Read More

July 11, 2016 @ 12:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to move on from the family drama between him and his ex-fiancé, Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston has launched a GoFundMe to raise $10,000 so that he may pay his legal bills, which were accumulated during the custody battles over their son, Tripp Easton Mitchell… Read More