Shanny Basar

Franklin Templeton is enabling peer-to-peer transfers in its on-chain U.S.-registered mutual fund while Archax, the UK FCA-regulated institutional digital asset exchange, broker and custodian, has added BlackRock to its tokenized money market fund...

Adena Friedman, chair and chief executive of Nasdaq, said the group’s index business had a stellar first quarter as assets in exchange-traded products linked to its indices reached more than $500bn for the first time. Friedman said on Nasdaq’s fi...

Average daily volume for Treasury futures and options at CME Group reached a record in the first quarter of this year and the derivatives exchange expects further growth due to the different market opinions on whether the Federal Reserve will cut ...

The European Union should develop a savings and investments union to unlock €33 trillion in private savings which is predominantly held in currency and deposits, according to Enrico Letta, president of the Jacques Delors Institute and former Itali...

Paul Woolman, global head of equity products at CME Group, highlighted the growth in the exchange’s equity index suite despite muted volatility. CME reported that equity index options had a record average daily volume of 1.7 million contracts in ...

Stablecoins could help ease the difficulties of fund managers outside the US completing their foreign exchange trades in time to meet the shorter settlement cycle for US securities that are being introduced in May. Nick Philpott, co-founder and h...

In February 2024 Citi said that it had successfully completed a proof of concept on tokenization of private funds along with Wellington Management and WisdomTree. Tokenization is the creation of a digital representation of physical assets such as ...

John McCareins’ travels around the world have helped prepare him for his latest role as head of international, leading Northern Trust Asset Management's business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and across Asia Pacific (APAC).  Pr...