Shanny Basar

Octaura Holding’s electronic syndicated loan trading platform has traded more volume in the first six months of this year than in the whole of 2024 and the firm completed a $46.5m fundraising. Brian Bejile, chief executive of Octaura, told Market...

Cboe Global Markets believes that options markets in Europe are on the cusp of change as CEDX, its pan-European derivatives market, aims to make the region’s options mainstream on the global stage. Iouri Saroukhanov, head of European derivatives ...

State Street's fourth annual global private markets survey found that retail investors are set to become the main source of private market fundraising over the next two years. The report, The New Private Markets Advantage, found that the majority...

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Digital Assets held a hearing on 24 June 2025 to discuss legislative frameworks for market structure. Ryan VanGrack, vice president of legal at Coinbase Global, over...

Yasmine Coupal, partner at Goldman Sachs, expects a “wave of exchange consolidation” in digital assets as players look to scale and diversify their businesses. Coupal, a partner in the bank’s technology, media, and telecom group in investment ban...

Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, the bank’s blockchain business unit, has launched  a permissioned US dollar deposit token, another form of digital money that could become the “new institutional default.” Jason Barraza, chief operating officer at Security...

Komainu, a regulated digital asset services provider and custodian, raised $75m this year to fund its growth plans as the FIA, the industry body for cleared derivatives, said tokenization has the potential to accelerate the movement of collateral....

In a significant step toward bringing institutional finance onchain, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, the firm’s industry-leading blockchain business unit, plans to issue a permissioned USD deposit token, JPMD, for payments for the first time on Base, the ...