South African regulators are preparing sweeping
changes to the country’s over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market in a bid to
reduce systemic risk and tighten oversight of non-bank providers. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority…
US-based brokerage platform Alpaca has secured
clearing memberships with the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) and the Fixed
Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), expanding its self-clearing operations to
options and U.S. Treasuries. The U.S.-based broker…
JPMorgan blockchain clearing firm partnership with Marex actually creates the first 24/7 blockchain payments system for institutional settlements right now. The collaboration enables blockchain payment settlements through JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform,…
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Marex is the first clearing firm to use JPMorgan’s Kinexys blockchain platform for client settlements, the companies said Wednesday.
The partnership with Brevan Howard Digital enables 24/7 payments using blockchain-based…
The road to a spot Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF) could be much shorter than expected.The Securities and Exchange Commission asked prospective issuers to respond to comments and re-file amended…
Crypto payment platform MoonPay announced it secured
both a BitLicense and a money transmitter license from the New York State
Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), enabling it to operate in all 50
states.Regulatory…
The U.S. Senate voted to move ahead on stablecoin legislation Monday night, removing a procedural barrier to ultimately passing the bill out of the body entirely.Senators easily cleared the 60-vote…
The Gibraltar government said it plans to establish the world's first rules for the clearing and settlement of crypto derivatives, creating a regulatory framework to improve market integrity and reduce…
Privacy-preserving clearing protocol Cycles has announced the first clearing application built on it, Cycles Prime, as well as a pre-seed round.Cycles is a privacy-preserving clearing protocol developed by Informal Systems,…