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Zodia Custody initiates Ethereum Pectra staking
23 October 2025 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Through the launch, Zodia Custody will become one of the initial institutional custodians to provide Pectra-capable staking infrastructure

Standard Chartered joins Clearstream for fund distribution solution
21 October 2025 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Clearstream’s Vestima Digital solution addresses the operational complexity of private market fund distribution by digitising fund raising, capital call management and asset servicing

Standard Chartered and OKX partner in the EEA
15 October 2025 UK, Luxembourg
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The partnership will allow the companies to cover the full value chain from execution to custody, allowing the possibility to trade and secure their digital assets

Temenos introduces Money Movement & Management platform
30 September 2025 SIBOS
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The solution combines payments, accounts, risk, and treasury modules to allow financial institutions to transfer money more efficiently, reliably, and with lower costs

Bybit partners with QNB Group and DMZ Finance
19 September 2025 UAE
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

According to the firms, QCDT being brought onto Bybit’s platform as collateral generates up to US$1 billion in borrowing capabilities, offering new avenues for institutions

Perrin appointed as Managing Director, FI Solutions
02 September 2025 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Craig Perrin brings over 20 years experience in leadership roles and working across the securities services and institutional banking sectors

Ant International and Standard Chartered conduct live trials for Alipay+
29 August 2025 Singapore
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The solution leverages the Swift network to connect to 1.7 billion user accounts on the 36 global digital wallets in the Alipay+ ecosystem

KuCoin forms strategic collaboration with AlloyX
15 August 2025
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The alliance will launch real-world asset (RWA) tokens into the exchange’s collateral channels intending to improve user asset property and liquidity

JellyC joins OKX and Standard Chartered collateral programme
06 August 2025 Australia
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Australasian digital asset investment manager will use cryptocurrencies and a tokenised money market fund as off-exchange collateral for trading on the OKX platform

Standard Charter launches a fully integrated digital assets trading service
16 July 2025 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The offering includes spot trading for bitcoin and ether through its UK branch

Harwood-Jones becomes Chair of ISSA Board
09 May 2025 US
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

In addition to her new responsibilities as chair, Margaret Harwood-Jones currently acts as global head of financing and securities services at Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered and OKX create collateral programme
10 April 2025 Dubai
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

The initiative also aims to enhance security and capital efficiency through the use of a globally systemically important bank (G-SIB) as the collateral custodian