Shanny Basar
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Capital Efficiency Will ‘Win the Game’ in Crypto
David Martin, the new chief executive of the derivatives business at AsiaNext, the institutional digital asset exchange based in Singapore, said capital efficiency will “win the game” in crypto. AsiaNext said in a statement in August this year th...
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T+1, Digital Asset Adoption Having Most Post-Trade Impact
The impact of T+1, cutting the settlement cycle to the day after a trade, and the increasing adoption of digital assets are having the most significant impact on the post-trade environment. Citi’s latest Securities Services Evolution whitepaper f...
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JP Morgan on Track for Record Markets Revenue
Doug Petno, co-chief executive of the commercial & investment bank at JP Morgan, expects markets and investment banking revenues to increase in this quarter. Petno spoke to analyst Jason Goldberg at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conf...
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United Fintech Reshapes Institutional Adoption of New Tech
In August this year Rupsa Mukherjee joined United Fintech as head of mergers and acquisitions after previous roles in corporate finance and investment banking, including Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. United Fintech was founded in 2020 to allow...
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Nasdaq Files to Trade Tokenized Equities
Nasdaq has submitted a regulatory filing to trade tokenized securities as Galaxy Digital, the digital asset and data center infrastructure firm, has tokenized its Nasdaq-listed stock and crypto firms have launched tokenized versions of U.S equitie...
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Scale is the Name of the Game for Pyth’s Onchain Data
Pyth Network, alongside Chainlink, was chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce as one of the oracles to post real gross domestic product (GDP) data on the blockchain and the decentralized blockchain-based distribution platform aims to further sc...
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Regulated Spot Crypto Trading will Unlock Capital Efficiency
Market participants said U.S. regulators allowing registered exchanges a facilitate the trading of certain spot commodity products shows that crypto trading is going mainstream, and will unlock capital efficiencies and modernized infrastruture. S...
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Active ETFs to Continue to Grow
VanEck, the U.S. asset manager, has launched TruSector exchange-traded funds which are contributing to the growth of actively managed ETFs as they have reached record inflows and assets under management this year. The TruSector ETFs in the consum...
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