Shanny Basar
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BlackRock Sees ‘Large Opportunity’ in Developing Compute Market
Laurence Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, said the need to create a new financing vehicle for compute is imperative for the U.S. to build out to the necessary scale. Fink said on the third quarter results call on 14 October 2026 t...
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Ondo Introduces ‘SPY Moment’ for Onchain Finance
Ondo Finance, which designs institutional-grade platforms, assets, and infrastructure to bring financial markets onchain, has launched a new type of fund which it described as the “SPY moment” for onchain finance. In September this year Ondo anno...
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Broadridge Extends Digital Asset Capabilities Beyond Repo
Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform processed $7.5 trillion of transactions in September as the fintech expanded its digital asset infrastructure beyond repo with the launch of DLX, a fully integrated, end-to-end tokenization and...
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Coordination Will Drive Next Phase of Digital Assets
TP ICAP, the interdealer broker and provider of market infrastructure and data, held its second annual ‘Bridging the Gap’ digital assets conference in September this year in London. Dan Fields, chief executive of global broking at TP ICAP, said i...
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Man Group Accelerates AI Transformation
Man Group, the alternative investment management firm, has released its own multi-model AI harness, the software infrastructure around large language models that connects them to the tools, systems, memory and execution environments needed for AI ...
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Collateral Mobility is ‘Holy Grail’ of Tokenization
Market participants said improving collateral mobility is a critical benefit of tokenization but highlighted that legal and regulatory certainty is needed for adoption to scale. Kim Hochfeld, global head of digital and cash at State Street Invest...
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‘Tipping Point’ Reached for Commercialization of Digital Assets
Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, the open source foundation for decentralized technology, said many significant blockchain projects have reached production, rather than the financial industry being dominated by proofs of concept. Daniela Bar...
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NSX Focuses on Mining Listings, New Tech
In October 2025 the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) completed its AUD $16m acquisition of the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), another market primarily focused on early-stage, entrepreneurial companies with strength in the resource s...
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