Shanny Basar
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Institutional Appetite for Digital Assets Grows
TP ICAP, a long-established name in traditional finance, launched a digital asset business in 2019. Duncan Trenholme, global co-head of digital assets at TP ICAP, discussed increasing institutional interest on the Open Order Podcast, a Traders Mag...
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Cboe to Exit Australia and Canada
Craig Donohue, chief executive of Cboe Global Markets, took on his role in May this year and has completed a review of the derivatives and securities markets operator. The new strategy includes initiating a sales process for Cboe Australia and Cbo...
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Polymarket Will Help ICE Adopt 24/7 Tokenized Collateral
Jeffrey Sprecher, chair and chief executive of ICE, said one of the attractions of investing in Polymarket was the prediction market's use of smart contracts to take advantage of the new blockchain banking infrastructure, which will help ICE adapt...
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Coinbase AM, Apollo Partner to Tokenize Private Credit
Coinbase Asset Management and Apollo have partnered to create tokenized credit products while several fund managers have enabled onchain access to their credit funds this month. On 27 October 2025 Coinbase Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidi...
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SoloTex Expands Tokenized U.S Equities
SoloTex is due to go live in the fourth quarter of this year and offer U.S. retail investors the ability to buy publicly listed U.S. equities with stablecoins. On 15 October 2025 Solgenic, a blockchain‑based asset tokenization firm, and Texture C...
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tZERO Resets Vision, Focuses on Partnerships
Alan Konevsky was appointed as chief executive of tZERO Group in September this year and recalibrated the vision for the U.S company which provides institutional infrastructure for blockchain and tokenized securities. Konevsky has over two decade...
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LMAX’s Pozdorovkina on the “Inflection Point” in Capital Markets
Barbara Pozdorovkina is chief growth officer at LMAX Group, which operates institutional foreign exchnage and crypto execution venues. The total group traded $6.5 trillion in its 2024 financial year, up 23% from 2023. She won Excellence in Exchang...
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BrokerTec Chicago Trades Over $1bn Since Launch on 6 October
CME Group said its new central limit order book (CLOB) for U.S. Treasury trading in Chicago has traded over $1bn of notional traded across all seven tenors since launching on 6 October 2025. BrokerTec’s platform for benchmark cash U.S. Treasuries...
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