Month: May 2022

Paxos, the regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, has partnered with State Street to integrate State Street’s custody services into the Paxos Settlement Service. As part of the pilot, State Street was able to simulate the settlement and custody of shares on the Paxos platform and asset movements more efficiently. State Street was able to send settlement…

Citi has announced some senior management changes in Europe: Alex Todd has been appointed head of securities services for Europe. He will report to Maria Cantillon, EMEA head of securities services sales, Kristen Braden, and Bryan Murphy, global head of bank sales. He will continue in his role as EMEA head of bank sales. He…

Stonegate Global has hired Skyler Steinke as managing director – digital assets group. Stonegate Global is a U.S.-based provider of fund administration, global advisory and fund structuring services for crypto funds, hedge funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and private equity funds. Stonegate Global specialises in servicing DeFi crypto funds involved in staking, yield…

BNY Mellon in Ireland has been appointed as custodian and administrator for Grayscale’s first European ETF, launched through the HANetf platform, for which BNY Mellon provides custody and administration. The Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (GFOF) will list on the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana and will be available to investors…

K2 Asset Management has appointed State Street Australia Limited as the fund administrator and custodian in Australia for the Cosmos Purpose Bitcoin Access ETF (Cboe: CBTC), Australia’s first cryptocurrency ETF ultimately backed by physically settled Bitcoin. CBTC’s underlying asset is the Purpose Bitcoin ETF which is managed by Purpose Investments and quoted on the Toronto…

BNY Mellon has participated in a Series F financing round for Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, which has raised USD170m, bringing its valuation to USD8.6bn. Chainalysis provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies in over 70 countries. The data powers investigation, compliance, and market intelligence…