Broadridge Financial Solutions reports that it is responding in multiple ways to clients who say that digital assets and tokenization are becoming central to their investors’ portfolios. As a provider of multiple services, systems, and applications for securities operations, Broadridge reports that it has extended its governance platform, reached out to Canadian wealth managers, and… Read More >>
CaixaBank to Offer Crypto-Asset Services
CaixaBank has been authorized as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, allowing the firm to offer crypto-asset services under the new common regulatory framework of the European Union, officials say. The Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) authorized the CASP designation, and the MiCA license “enables CaixaBank to provide… Read More >>
BNY to Provide Support for WisdomTree Prime
WisdomTree, Inc. has appointed the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY) as its banking-as-a-service (BaaS) infrastructure provider for WisdomTree Prime, a retail platform for tokenized assets and cryptocurrency, officials say. WisdomTree is BNY’s first retail digital assets BaaS client. WisdomTree is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) and exchange-traded product (ETP) sponsor and asset manager. “WisdomTree… Read More >>
Japanese Firm & Chainlink Target Digital Assets
A $200 billion Japanese financial services firm, SBI Group, has entered into a “strategic collaboration” with decentralized blockchain oracle network Chainlink to push the growth of interoperable blockchains and digital assets in capital markets, officials say. A recent survey by SBI Digital Asset Holdings, SBI’s digital asset arm, found that among 50 financial firms, 76… Read More >>
Citi & SDX to Tokenize Private Market Shares
Citi is collaborating with SDX Group AG (SDX), the digital assets exchange from SIX, so that the global bank can transform a paper-based system into a tokenized one that settles and secures private shares via SDX’s digital Central Securities Depositary (CSD) platform. The new solution will also deliver “late-stage pre-IPO equities to institutional and eligible… Read More >>
SEC Crypto Task Force Schedules More Roundtables
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 >>
