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Digital assets news and commentary
Issuance and tokenisation
Ripple partners with Kyobo Life Insurance
17 April 2026 South Korea
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The firms also plan to assess the technical and regulatory feasibility of tokenised treasury settlement, with Ripple Custody leveraged as the foundation for the holding, transfer, and settlement of tokenised assets
Industry
Payward to acquire Bitnomial
17 April 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote
The combination brings together Bitnomial's fully CFTC-licensed infrastructure with Payward's global client base, deep liquidity, and distribution across Kraken and NinjaTrader
Market, securities, and trading
DTCC advances ‘Cloud First’ strategy
16 April 2026 US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation intends to enhance operational resilience through the addition of redundancy, improving fault isolation, and enabling more robust contingency and recovery capabilities
Regulation
FCA seeks feedback on UK’s proposed crypto regime
16 April 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The Authority is asking for feedback on its interpretation of issuing qualifying stablecoins, operating trading platforms, dealing and arranging deals in qualifying cryptoassets, safeguarding cryptoassets, and staking
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Bridging the trust gap in digital assets
Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss the trust gap between traditional finance and digital assets — and why verifiable identity may be the missing layer needed to scale tokenised markets
Who wins the settlement layer race?
Tahlia Kraefft examines the race to redefine how transactions are cleared and settled, and asks who comes out on top — tokenised fiats or central bank money?
Brazil’s regulatory turn
Juan Andres Dudier Mendoza, head of product, digital asset stablecoin at Apex Group, examines how Brazil has built Latin America’s most comprehensive digital-asset regime, setting a new benchmark for operational, custody, and FX oversight in the region
Bitcoin at the intersection of monetary policy and market cycles
James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, assesses why Bitcoin has underperformed traditional safe havens following the Federal Reserve’s policy shift, considering how cyclical flows, muted institutional demand, and regulatory uncertainty are weighing on near-term performance
From experiment to infrastructure
Tahlia Kraefft examines how as the United Kingdom’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation shifts from minimal oversight to a comprehensive financial services framework regime, is the regulation a brake on innovation or structure for scale?
Tokenisation alone is not enough
Rico van der Veen, co-founder and CEO at SemiLiquid Labs, considers that while tokenisation has improved asset mobility and transparency, the real constraint on institutional scale lies in outdated credit rails
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Zodia Custody
Sophie Bowler
Sophie Bowler, chief risk and compliance officer at Zodia Custody, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss Australia’s regulatory and structural changes in the digital asset space
Crossover Markets
Brandon Mulvihill
Brandon Mulvihill, co-founder and CEO of Crossover Markets, speaks to Karl Loomes about why vertically integrated exchanges constrain institutional adoption, and what must change for digital asset trading to meet institutional standards
Bitget
Gracy Chen
Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss why institutional focus has shifted from experimentation to execution, what is holding back large-scale adoption, and how liquidity, custody, and regulatory clarity will shape digital market infrastructure
TRAction Fintech
Quinn Perrott
Quinn Perrott, co-CEO at TRAction Fintech, examines how ASIC’s October 2024 Reporting Rules Rewrite clarifies the treatment of cryptocurrency CFDs and other OTC derivatives, including where they sit within Australia’s trade-reporting asset class framework
SWIAT
Ivica Aračić
Ivica Aračić, chief technology officer at SWIAT, explains how regulatory‑compliant digital market infrastructure is driving institutional confidence in tokenised assets, and why shared, neutral DLT platforms are essential for scaling onchain issuance, settlement, and collateral across global capital markets
Zumo
Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo, speaks to Karl Loomes about the FCA’s crypto authorisation gateway, what it signals for the UK’s digital assets strategy, and how firms should prepare for the full regulatory regime
Crystal aOS
Joni Pirovich
Joni Pirovich, founder and CEO of Crystal aOS, sits down with The Digital Assets Edge to discuss why compliance remains the biggest barrier to institutional crypto adoption, and how agentic AI could turn regulatory burden into scalable infrastructure
Euroclear
Miguel Ferreira and Marije Verhelst
Securities financing is going through a seismic transformation, sparked by fast-moving macro events, ever-shifting regulations, and rapid digitalisation. Miguel Ferreira and Marije Verhelst discuss how Euroclear’s Collateral Highway is adapting to the changing dynamics
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