Shanny Basar
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Coinbase AM, Apollo Partner to Tokenize Private Credit
Coinbase Asset Management and Apollo have partnered to create tokenized credit products while several fund managers have enabled onchain access to their credit funds this month. On 27 October 2025 Coinbase Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidi...
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SoloTex Expands Tokenized U.S Equities
SoloTex is due to go live in the fourth quarter of this year and offer U.S. retail investors the ability to buy publicly listed U.S. equities with stablecoins. On 15 October 2025 Solgenic, a blockchain‑based asset tokenization firm, and Texture C...
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tZERO Resets Vision, Focuses on Partnerships
Alan Konevsky was appointed as chief executive of tZERO Group in September this year and recalibrated the vision for the U.S company which provides institutional infrastructure for blockchain and tokenized securities. Konevsky has over two decade...
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LMAX’s Pozdorovkina on the “Inflection Point” in Capital Markets
Barbara Pozdorovkina is chief growth officer at LMAX Group, which operates institutional foreign exchnage and crypto execution venues. The total group traded $6.5 trillion in its 2024 financial year, up 23% from 2023. She won Excellence in Exchang...
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BrokerTec Chicago Trades Over $1bn Since Launch on 6 October
CME Group said its new central limit order book (CLOB) for U.S. Treasury trading in Chicago has traded over $1bn of notional traded across all seven tenors since launching on 6 October 2025. BrokerTec’s platform for benchmark cash U.S. Treasuries...
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Nasdaq Sees Digital Asset Opportunities Across Franchise
Adena Friedman, chair and chief executive of Nasdaq, said the increasing institutional interest in digital assets is leading to opportunities across its whole franchise including trading, technology, surveillance and the index business. In the th...
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Superstate Advances Onchain Equities
Superstate reached two landmarks in September this year as the financial technology firm for crypto capital markets surpassed $1bn in its tokenized funds and it partnered with Galaxy Digital, to tokenize the digital asset and data center infrastr...
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Trade, Tariffs, Turmoil Dominate Commodities Derivatives
Tariffs, trade realignments and macro uncertainty have redrawn the commodities map. At SGX Commodities Day in London, market participants converged on a central question: where is real price discovery, liquidity and risk transfer happening when th...
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