Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a majority stake in Crypto Finance AG, a financial group under consolidated FINMA supervision that offers trading, storage, and investment in digital assets to institutional and professional clients. Through the acquisition, Deutsche Börse further extends its offering for digital assets by providing a direct entry…
Read MoreVIENNA, 25 May 2021, RIDDLE&CODE FinTech Solutions, an innovative European company empowering financial institutions to handle all aspects of digital asset management, has obtained a licence as a “service provider for virtual/cryptographic tokens” by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA). RIDDLE&CODE FinTech Solutions is one of the first fintech companies in…
Read MoreTokyo, Japan – 27, April 2021. Sepior, a provider of threshold key management technologies and solutions using secure multiparty computation (MPC), and SBI Digital Asset Holdings (SBI DAH), the digital asset arm of the SBI Group, announced the integration of Sepior’s ThresholdSig software with the sbiwallet; a new wallet service…
Read MoreHex Trust, Asia`s leading digital asset custodian, has entered into a new strategic partnership with PARSIQ, a blockchain monitoring and event tracking service provider. While keeping Parsiq’s PRQ tokens safe, the collaboration also offers Hex Trust’s clients additional security with enterprise-grade monitoring. PARSIQ is a “reverse-oracle” blockchain platform that addresses…
Read MoreIn a press release dated April 13, 2021, RIDDLE&CODE announced that leading Dutch crypto exchange LiteBit has decided to use its Token Management Platform (TMP) to scale its own infrastructure, respond to regulatory requirements and provide new functionality to its growing customer base. With this partnership, the leading Dutch crypto…
Read MoreAccording to a press release, Hex Trust, which is licensed as a trust in Hong Kong, raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by QBN Capital. Other investors included Cell Rising, Radiant Tech Ventures, Kenetic Capital, HashKey, MD Labs, Fenbushi Capital, Borderless Capital, Genesis Block Ventures and…
Read MoreNew York City-based Crypto custodian Fireblocks has raised $133 million in Series C venture capital funding with strategic investment from BNY Mellon and Silicon Valley Bank. The round was led by Coatue, Ribbit, and Stripes. The completion of the round brings the company’s total amount of venture capital raised to…
Read MoreThe Bank of New York Mellon, the oldest bank in the U.S., announced a few weeks ago that it will in the future hold, transfer and issue Bitcoin (BTC) on behalf of its customers. The reason for this, according to the bank, was the increased demand from institutional investors. Roman…
Read MoreJohn Izaguirre, who previously was Director of Business Development Europe at Ontology, joined Prosegur Crypto as Head of Sales and Partnerships. Prosegur Crypto, which is a subsidiary of Spanish security giant Prosegur, recently launched its new digital asset custody service focused on institutional clients. It is the first global security…
Read MoreOn February 5th, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced conditional approval of the conversion of Protego Trust Company, a Washington state-chartered trust company, to become Protego Trust Bank, National Association. The conditional approval was granted after thorough review of Protego’s conversion application. Protego is the second…
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