The DTCC and Chainlink have been busy with something they are calling the “Smart NAV pilot,” which was an attempt to apply the digital asset capabilities of both organizations to mutual fund tokenization. (NAV is “net asset value,” or an investment firm’s total assets once all liabilities have been subtracted.) In mid-May, both players went… Read More >>
Tokenized Securities Offer Many Ops Benefits
(The digital overhaul for securities trading and operations is moving quickly to the next chapter facilitated by blockchains, cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and more. To help those working in traditional securities operations, FTF News reached out to Thomas Sullivan, managing director-head of business development for digital assets at Societe Generale. Sullivan agreed to provide explanations on the… Read More >>
CFTC Taps BNY Mellon & Franklin Templeton & Other News
Officials from Key Firms Join Digital Assets Subcommittee The CFTC recently announced that its Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee will have co-chairs from BNY Mellon and Franklin Templeton. Caroline Butler, global head of digital assets at BNY Mellon, and Sandy Kaul, senior vice president, head of digital and industry advisory services at Franklin Templeton, will serve… Read More >>
Turkish Bank Goes Live with Murex System & Other News
Anadolubank Deploys MXGO Solution Turkish bank Anadolubank has gone live with a treasury and trading platform from vendor Murex to build a front-to-middle-office platform across multiple asset classes including FX, FXD, money markets, fixed income, interest rate differential (IRD) and SecFin that will help the bank expand its treasury and capital markets businesses. Anadolubank is… Read More >>
SWIFT Enlists SETL for Digital Asset Ops Pilot
The SWIFT financial messaging and services cooperative is exploring how it might facilitate interoperability among the distributed ledgers used to underpin the tokenized asset market, and London-based blockchain upstart vendor SETL has joined the effort. “SWIFT plans a series of experiments in Q1 2022 leveraging its trusted role as a central platform to explore the… Read More >>
Crypto to Face New Rules in 2022: Regulators
Heavy-hitter federal regulators say new rules are coming for cryptocurrencies, the new, mostly unregulated financial sector that competes with traditional banks without offering deposit insurance, the banks’ most important protection. And cryptography has been beset by high-profile scandals that have cost some would-be crypto millionaires their entire fortunes. As well, at a time of worsening… Read More >>
