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IOSCO defines its cryptoasset and fintech work agenda for 2022-3

08 July 2022 Spain
Reporter: AST

The IOSCO fintech taskforce has workstreams dedicated to crypto and digital assets (CDA) and decentralised finance (DeFi), with particular focus on financial stability, market protection and investor protection concerns

SDX collaborates with digital asset and crypto tech platform

08 July 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

SIX Digital Exchange’s unit has entered into a strategic partnership with digital asset and crypto technology platform Fireblocks to provide institutional investors and regulated intermediates with infrastructure services for the distributed economy

Investment Association sets out vision for technology transformation in fund markets

07 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The UK buy-side trade body claims that the funds industry is approaching a major technology transformation driven by tokenisation and use of digital native assets in the collective investment fund products of the future

Archax deploys METACO platform for digital asset custody services

07 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian Archax has partnered with METACO to expand its institutional digital asset custody offering on IBM Cloud

EU reaches provisional agreement on markets in crypto-assets

04 July 2022 EU
Reporter: AST

Provisional agreement between EU Parliament and Council negotiators brings crypto-assets, issuers and service providers into a regulatory framework under MICA and new AML rules

Clearlake Capital Group acquire BETA+ assets from LSEG

04 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The BETA+ assets acquired in the agreement include BETA Post-trade Processing, Maxit, and Digital Investor

Colendi acquires SETL

28 June 2022 UK Turkey
Reporter: Bob Currie

Turkish fintech Colendi has announced the purchase of London-headquartered enterprise blockchain specialist SETL, with plans to shorten the gap between permissioned enterprise blockchain and a secure public blockchain environment