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Custodian

A financial institution that holds customers' securities for safekeeping to prevent them from being lost or stolen.

Custodian News

Industry
Zodia Custody joins forces with PwC

This partnership allows PwC UK insolvency practitioners to provide custody solutions underpinned by Zodia Custody’s secure infrastructure, designed to address the nuances of digital asset management

Balance Trust can now access Lido V3 stVaults

According to the firm, this move enables Balance's institutional clients to deploy Ethereum through Lido's newest modular staking module

Bank of Canada and firms complete DLT bond issuance experiment

The project is a collaborative initiative to evaluate how tokenisation and distributed ledger technology can improve bond issuance and settlement in a real-world setting

Standard Chartered partners with TP ICAP

According to the firm, the partnership will support the global markets infrastructure provider as it expands its matched principal trading activities

DWP makes HBAR custody available for clients

Through Anchorage Digital Bank, Digital Wealth Partners intends for the addition of HBAR custody to address the institutional desire for compliant access to the Hedera network

Gemini to exit the UK market

Gemini Intergalactic UKand Gemini Payments are undergoing a phased wind-down to leave the UK market

Pielow rejoins Taskize as Senior Sales Executive

Most recently, Ben Pielow held the role of director of strategic accounts at Genesis Global, a software application development business backed by Bank of America, BNY Mellon, and Citi

Industry
HSBC Securities Services secures onshore mutual fund custody mandate

This new mutual fund marks E Fund’s first onshore mutual fund to partner with a foreign custodian bank, a milestone for both organisations