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Hanwha Life completes majority acquisition of Velocity Clearing
31 July 2025 South Korea, US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The deal marks the firm’s move into the North American capital markets — beyond Hanwha Life’s traditional insurance business

GLEIF collaborates to boost global visibility of Swiss businesses
29 July 2025 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The new initiative will integrate official central business registry data directly into the legal entity identifier records of Swiss businesses

BNP Paribas joins the Sterling Fnality Payment System
28 July 2025 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

This was followed by the completion of an on-chain interest rate swap payment between BNP Paribas and Lloyds

EDXM International goes live with perpetual futures platform
23 July 2025 Singapore
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The perpetual futures trading venue uses technology to improve trade execution using the company’s in-house, matching engine to further low-latency digital assets trading

Broadridge selects Gautam for Trading and Connectivity Solutions business
23 July 2025 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Former J.P. Morgan executive director Munish Gautam has joined Broadridge to spearhead the development of advanced multi-asset trading capabilities

Tufano joins Clear Street
16 July 2025 US
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

He will work closely with the firm’s trading, risk, operations, technology and client service teams and will also be overseeing margin, collateral and settlement processes

Coinbase connects with Copper’s ClearLoop network
14 July 2025 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The collaboration will provide clients with access to Copper’s off-exchange settlement and collateral management platform

HKMA enhances renminbi bond repo business
08 July 2025 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Facilitating the participation of Northbound Bond Connect investors in the repo business, the authority welcomes two enhancements which will come into effect on 25 August 2025

Shikar departs Natixis
07 July 2025 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

After two decades at the firm, Dennis Shikar has left his position as Americas head of global markets sales and structuring

Global PSSL CIC works to reform green bond lending
04 July 2025 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Its newly released paper identifies a critical transparency gap in current securities lending, repo, and derivatives frameworks where green-labelled bonds may be used

Schroders launches Global Digital Assets Centre of Excellence in Singapore
03 July 2025 Singapore
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Led by Marita McGinley, the centre brings together a team of digital asset specialists which will look to drive the development of best practice

Digital Asset raises US$135m to accelerate Canton Network adoption
24 June 2025 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The funding aims to accelerate institutional and decentralised finance adoption on the Canton Network — a public, permissionless Layer-1 blockchain