Hong Kong, June 30, 2021 – digital asset custodian Hex Trust announced it has successfully secured investment from Cyberport, Hong Kong’s largest FinTech hub and innovative digital community, which is wholly owned by the Hong Kong SAR Government. It did not mention the amount of investment from Cyberport. According to…
Read MoreDeutsche 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 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 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 MoreMunich-based Bankhaus von der Heydt is taking over custody of digital assets for private bank M.M. Warburg & CO. The jointly developed solution makes it possible for the first time to connect the IT systems of the two credit institutions with holdings on the blockchain. The cooperation between the two…
Read MoreOn Tuesday 26th 2021, Zurich-based Crypto Finance Group announced that it has partnered with Avaloq, one of the major banking IT providers. Through the partnership, Crypto Finance Group can now offer its trading solutions directly to private banking clients. The solution aims to enable financial institutions to offer a seamless…
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