Following its first roundtable on March 21, the Crypto Task Force of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has slated four more roundtables as part of its ongoing series focused on crypto asset regulation. The task force dates and subjects for each roundtable are as follows: April 11, 2025: “Between a Block and a Hard… Read More >>
Broadridge Platform Gathers Digital Asset Data for Disclosures
Digital transformation is creating new needs among advisors and investors to gather digital asset data to stay ahead of disclosure regulations and to better understand their digital asset investing. Knowing this, Broadridge Financial Solutions has just released the ClearFi platform to help broker-dealers, exchanges, and wallet providers supply their clients and participants with “useful on-chain… Read More >>
Disruptive IT Takes Aim at Corporate Actions’ Problems
Corporate action processing, including problematic data issues, is interacting with disruptive technologies, and that might be good for the securities industry. A recently launched pilot shows how artificial intelligence (A.I.), blockchains, and other cutting-edge technologies may lead to a breakthrough. Chainlink, an Ethereum-based provider of decentralized “oracle” networks, is leading the pilot. Oracles are key… Read More >>
ESG Data, A.I. & DLT Top IT Agendas
Despite controversy and predictions of its death, principled investments based upon environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns are alive and kicking as evidenced by growing demands for ESG data. Also very much alive are artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies, which could prove to be cost-effective for automated compliance and regulatory reporting, and for middle- and back-office… Read More >>
Digital Assets & DLT Grow in Popularity & Risk
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets are becoming the preferred way to meet cash and liquidity requirements for digital securities settlements, according to a report from Citi Securities Services. However, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is cautioning that banks using permissionless a.k.a public blockchains face “risks related to operations and security, governance, legal,… Read More >>
DTCC & Chainlink Explore Mutual Fund Tokenization
The DTCC and Chainlink have been busy with something they are calling the “Smart NAV pilot,” which was an attempt to apply the digital asset capabilities of both organizations to mutual fund tokenization. (NAV is “net asset value,” or an investment firm’s total assets once all liabilities have been subtracted.) In mid-May, both players went… Read More >>
DLT Move Will Be Harder Than T+1: DTCC
A wholesale move to distributed ledger technology (DLT) for the securities industry would be “a massive undertaking” that would be far more difficult than the move to shorter T+1 settlement, says Nadine Chakar, managing director and global head of DTCC Digital Assets. Chakar also pointed out that the DTCC as a financial market infrastructure (FMI)… Read More >>
Digital Asset Open Sources Its Smart Contract Language
Distributed ledger pioneer Digital Asset is open sourcing its smart contract language, the Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML), to facilitate the rapid adoption of distributed ledger technology (DLT) applications regardless of the platform. The source code for the DAML language, runtime, and Software Development Kit (SDK) will be freely available under an Apache 2.0 open… Read More >>
