Tagged: digital asset

May 10, 2023 @ 5:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Digital Asset and market participants announce their plans to launch the Canton Network, the industry’s “first” privacy-enabled interoperable blockchain network designed for institutional assets and built “to responsibly unlock the potential of synchronized financial markets.” Canton Network participants reportedly “include 3Homes, ASX, BNP Paribas,… Read More

March 3, 2023 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EquiLend announces that it has selected Digital Asset in order “to provide the distributed ledger technology underpinning the EquiLend 1Source initiative.” Unveiled in July 2022 as part of EquiLend’s Digital Transformation Working Group, which consists of many of the world’s largest banks and broker-dealers, 1Source… Read More

September 1, 2022 @ 7:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, a software provider that helps enterprises build economic value through interconnected networks, announced another solid quarter of growth in Q2 2022. The firm continues “to expand its footprint among financial institutions and market infrastructures exploring and investing in next generation blockchain technology.” The… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Floating Point Group (FPG), a cryptocurrency prime brokerage with an institutional trading desk and settlement platform, has appointed Peter Eliades, former J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo banking executive “as Head of Distribution.” Eliades joins “a predominately technical and crypto-native leadership team.” With over two decades… Read More

June 1, 2022 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Craig Blitz, Chief Product Officer at Digital Asset, which is building the platform, developer tools, and leveraging the best modern infrastructure providers “to change how businesses interact.” Digital Asset (the company) is the creator of the Daml multi-party application platform. Our… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is reportedly set to enforce yet another delay to the cutover of its blockchain-powered post-trade network, which was initially expected to go-live in April of last year. The ASX has been working cooperatively with distributed ledger tech (DLT) specialist Digital… Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Symphony – the markets’ infrastructure and tech platform – is teaming up with Digital Asset – a software and services provider that assists enterprises with building economic value via interconnected networks – in order to “generate efficiency and remove manual processes in the broadly syndicated… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 1:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London’s SETL and New York’s Digital Asset recently entered into a partnership to develop a protocol that may be used by regulated institutions to introduce interoperable tokens. The protocol, modelled on the Regulated Liability Network (RLN) initiative first introduced by Citibank’s Tony McLaughlin, will be… Read More

January 25, 2022 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital Asset has appointed J. Christopher Giancarlo to its board of directors. Giancarlo is the former Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and well known for his interest in crypto assets. Digital Asset stated that Giancarlo will provide counsel to Digital Asset’s leadership on… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CAIS, the alternative investment platform, and Digital Asset, the creators of the Daml multi-party application platform, have confirmed  a working collaboration to “explore specific use cases for blockchain, distributed ledgers, and smart contracts at the intersection of wealth management and alternative investments.” The two firms… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Börse has selected Digital Asset to power its post-trade platform labeled “D7”. Deutsche Börse has long been interested in the digital security realm and has been pushing forward with the transition towards a digital-only ecosystem. According to a note distributed by Digital Asset, the… Read More

September 21, 2021 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, a software and services provider that assists enterprises with building economic value via interconnected networks, has unveiled a 6-week online hackathon, which will be hosted in partnership with SE2, which is a life and annuities insurance tech and services provider. As noted in… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 6:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LiquidShare, an established European Fintech firm, has chosen Sextant for Daml, the blockchain and smart contract management and operations solution offered by Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP), in order to deliver its post-trade offering. LiquidShare was developed back in 2017 by leading European financial institutions including… Read More

June 11, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), an established global industry association for the blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) ecosystem, announced on Thursday (June 10, 2021) that Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder and CEO at Digital Asset, has been appointed to join its Board of Directors. As… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 10:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

      Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announced on Monday the integration of Taurus SA (“Taurus”), the Swiss digital asset and blockchain infrastructure fintech, with Temenos Transact, a next-generation core banking software. Temenos reported it collaborated with Taurus to deliver “simplified” access… Read More

May 12, 2021 @ 11:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Wednesday it has teamed up with cryptocurrency cash exchange Coinme to expand access to bitcoin. According to Moneygram, the partnership will enable the cash funding and payout of digital currency purchases, as well as sales…. Read More

May 3, 2021 @ 1:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ: MOGO) (TSX: MOGO) a Canada-based digital payments and financial technology company, announced on Monday it has purchased approximately 146 Ether (ETH) at an average price $2,780. The company reported that its Ethereum investment is consistent with management’s plans to increase its on-balance… Read More

April 21, 2021 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Asset, the developers of the Daml multi-party application platform, revealed on Wednesday (April 21, 2021) that they have secured more than $120 million in capital through a Series D funding round from 7RIDGE and Eldridge. As stated in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider:… Read More

April 18, 2021 @ 10:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Liquid announced on Sunday it is working with Silvergate Bank to support instant USD settlement on an internal settlement platform, the Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN). Liquid reported it has completed integration with SEN that will allow Liquid users to deposit and withdraw… Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 1:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  CoinShares, a European digital asset investment firm, announced on Tuesday it has crossed the $5 billion in assets threshold on its two ETP platforms.  As previously reported, CoinShares claims to be Europe’s largest digital asset investment house, managing billions of assets on behalf of a global… Read More