Latest Depositories News: Finextra Research

Deutsche Bank applies for digital asset licence

Deutsche Bank has become the latest investment bank to announce its push into the crypto custody market.

20 June 2023

Delta Capita buys SETL capital markets business

Delta Capita is setting up a distiributed ledger venture, acquiring the capital markets business of blockchain firm SETL and signing up Montis Group as an anchor client and minority investor.

24 April 2023

News/crypto

Nomura invests in digital asset clearing house ClearToken

Nomura's digital assets subsidiary, Laser Digital, has invested in ClearToken, a startup prepping a clearing house to the digital asset marketplace. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

23 March 2023

News/crypto

DTCC's Project Lithium to assess implications of CBDC on market infrastructure

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is developing a prototype to test the ability of US clearing and settlement infrastructure to support a Fed-issued central bank digital currency using a DLT platform.

12 April 2022

News/markets

Euroclear invests in Fnality

Euroclear has invested in Fnality, the international consortium of global banks focused on building a blockchain-based payment system to support the adoption of tokenised assets and marketplaces.

21 March 2022

News/markets

DTCC to apply cloud, API and blockchain to modernise private markets

The Depository Trusts and Clearing Corporation has entered the production build phase for a new platform to streamline the issuance, transfer and servicing of private market securities

09 November 2021

News/markets

ICE sells Euroclear stake for €709m

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has sold its 9.85% stake in clearing and settlement platform Euroclear to Silver Lake for €709 million.

18 October 2021

News/markets

DTCC to begin development of DLT-based settlement system

The Depository Turst and Clearing Corporation is to move into the development phase of a protytpe settlement platform based on distributed ledger technology that could act as the precursor to a US move to a same day settlement cycle

15 September 2021

News/regulation

Clearstream sells its 50% stake in Regis-TR to joint venture partner Iberclear

Clearstream is selling its 50% stake in the European trade repository Regis-TR to its joint venture partner Iberclear, part of SIX, who is taking full control of the business.

03 September 2021

News/markets

DTCC puts DLT at front and centre of shift to T+1

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation is close to completing work on a prototytpe settlement system based on distributed ledger technology, which could act as the precursor to a US move to a T+1 settlement cycle.

24 February 2021

News/devops

Brazil's B3 selects Genesis low-code application platform

Brazilian financial market infrastructure player B3 has signed on for Genesis's low-code application platform.

16 December 2020

News/markets

DTCC experiments with asset tokenisation and DLT

The Depository Trust and Clearing Coporation has unveiled two new projects, codenamed 'Ion' and 'Whitney', to experiment with asset digitalisation, distributed ledger technology and asset tokenisation for post-trade settlement in the public and private markets.

18 May 2020

News/Depositories

DTCC launches API marketplace

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched an API marketplace it hopes will foster innovation and collaboration across developer and business communities.

05 February 2020

News/Depositories

TCS blockchain powers cross-border securities settlement between CSDs

The Moroccan and Kuwait central securities depositories have carried out a cross-border securities settlement using stable coins and a blockchain from Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

11 April 2019

News/Depositories

DTCC begins testing DLT platform for credit derivatives

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is ploughing ahead with its project to re-platform its credit derivatives Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) on distributed ledger technology and cloud, enlisting 15 of the world's largest banks for a testing phase.

06 November 2018

News/Depositories

London Stock Exchange buys a further chunk of LCH

The London Stock Exchange is to lift its stake in LCH Group to 80%, paying £384 million for an additional 15.1% interest in the clearing house.

19 October 2018

News/Depositories

"The digitisation of assets has started," says Eurex Asia head

Products of all asset classes, from commodities to securities and debt, will increasingly be reduced to bits and bytes on a blockchain network, believes Eurex Asia head Roland Schwinn.

09 August 2018

News/Depositories

Euroclear takes stake in Algomi

Euroclear has made an undisclosed investment in fixed income liquidity matching firm Algomi.

18 July 2018

News/Depositories

DTCC makes Brexit break to Ireland

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has joined the rash of firms opening new offices in Europe to avoid the fall out from Britain's upcoming exit from the European Union.

18 July 2018

News/Depositories

Sberbank to test digital asset investment platform for ICOs

Sberbank and Russia's National Settlement Depository are to run an Initial Coin Offering in the Bank of Russia’s regulatory sandbox. Level One, a company that manages Moscow’s biggest commercial lecture hall, will be the issuer.

24 May 2018