Shanny Basar
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Citi to Launch Crypto Custody Next Year
Citi is launching digital asset custody in 2026 and believes it has an advantage in being able to bridge traditional and digital assets on one platform. Market participants expect about 10% of market turnover to be digital in five years according...
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Euroclear Updates EasyFocus+ to Ease T+1 Transition
The majority, 65%, of the finance community in the European Union are actively engaged in preparing for the transition to a shorter securities settlement in October 2027. The survey, published by the ValueExchange in November this year, covers mo...
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Citadel Securities Ignites Debate on Tokenized Equities
Citadel Securities said in a letter to the U.S Seurities and Exchange Commission that it is important not to override key investor protections when trading tokenized securities. The market maker said in the letter that the regulator "should identi...
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Banks Look to Disruptive Innovation
Banks are cautiously optimistic about their prospects and are now thinking about future trends that are shaping banking and disruptive innovation which serves their customers. Tanuj Kapilashrami, chief strategy & talent officer at Standard Ch...
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Stamp Duty Change ‘Very Important’ for UK IPOs
Anthony Gutman, co‑chief executive of Goldman Sachs International and global co-head of investment banking said initial public offerings are coming back to London in 20206 and beyond and that the change in stamp duty is very important to attract i...
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Eurex Adds to ‘Futurization’ with QIS Index Contracts
Deutsche Börse Group’s derivatives trading and clearing business confirmed that it is launching Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) index futures on 1 December 2025, adding to its efforts to futurize over-the-counter products. Eurex’s “futur...
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CME Outage is ‘True Black Swan’
https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994258309784731926 https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994351505864827086 https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994395477840990459 https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994402583797199339 Ben Kizemchuk, seni...
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U.K. Risks Becoming ‘Flyover Zone’ for Crypto
Market participants warned that the U.K. needs to decide its approach to digital money, especially towards stablecoins, or it risks falling behind other jurisdictions. Katie Harries, head of policy, Europe at U.S.-listed digital asset exchange op...
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