Komainu, a C.I.-based regulated institutional-grade digital asset custody services provider with >USD5bn AuC, has appointed Matthew Chamberlain as its CEO. For the past five years, Chamberlain has served as CEO of the London Metal Exchange, Komainu was founded in 2018 as a joint venture between Nomura, digital asset security firm Ledger, and digital asset investment…
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IHS Markit partners with METACO
IHS Markit, a provider of information, analytics and solutions, has partnered with METACO, the Swiss-based provider of software and infrastructure to the digital asset industry. The partnership aims to deliver post-trade securities processing capabilities for digital assets. IHS Markit’s post-trade securities processing platform will be integrated with METACO Harmonize, a secure digital asset system, to…
BlockFi gains Bermuda licence
BlockFi, a crypto financial services company, has been granted a Class F digital assets business licence by the Bermuda Monetary Authority for its Bermuda subsidiary, BlockFi International Ltd. BlockFi will centralise its existing products and services for non-U.S. retail and institutional clients under a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for cryptocurrency financial service providers. In…
Gemini hires new CTO from AWS
Gemini has hired Pravjit Tiwana as CTO. He joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was the general manager of Edge Services, which includes Amazon CloudFront, AWS Edge Computing, and AWS Data Transfer Operations.
Anchorage raises USD350m
Anchorage Digital, the U.S.-based crypto custody platform, has raised USD350m in a fundraising round led by KKR, valuing the business at over USD3bn.
Jason Nabi joins Bosonic
Bosonic, a U.S.-based decentralised financial market infrastructure (dFMI) business with a real-time clearing and settlement service for crypto and digital assets, has hired Jason Nabi as chief revenue officer, a newly created position. Nabi reports into Bosonic CEO Rosario Ingargiola. Nabi has worked at Euroclear, HSBC, BNP Paribas and SGSS, and was most recently an…
Mercado Libre takes stake in Paxos
Mercado Libre has acquired shares in the 2TM Group, the parent company of MercadoBitcoin.com, and has made a strategic investment in Paxos, a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform that powers the Mercado Pago cryptocurrency service in Brazil.
UnionBank to deploy Harmonize
METACO, a provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has announced that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is implementing its digital asset management services. UnionBank will leverage Harmonize, METACO’s digital asset orchestration system, to manage its digital asset operations. Harmonize enables institutions to manage a range of end-to-end digital asset…
Gemini acquires Omniex
Gemini, the crypto firm founded by the Winklevoss brothers, has acquired Omniex, a trading technology platform that provides order, execution, and portfolio management system solutions for institutional crypto trading. Omniex was founded by CEO Hu Liang and chief strategy officer John Burnett, both of whom worked at State Street. As part of this acquisition, the…
Anchorage hires first chief risk officer
Anchorage Digital Bank, America’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, has appointed Rachel Anderika as its first chief risk officer. Anderika, who worked at the OCC as a bank examiner, was most recently at Promontory Financial Group, a bank regulatory consulting firm owned by IBM. She helped found Promontory’s digital assets risk and compliance team,…