The Swiss Financial Market Authority (Finma) has for the first time approved a mutual fund that invests primarily in cryptoassets.
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The Swiss Financial Market Authority (Finma) has for the first time approved a mutual fund that invests primarily in cryptoassets.
The market is looking for consistency and harmony when it comes to regulating digital assets – but as Nicholas Pratt discovers, this goal is still some way off.
The head of State Street Digital, Nadine Chakar, called for more clarity from global regulators on rules for actors within the digital-assets market.
One of the UK’s largest hedge funds Brevan Howard has formed a new division, BH Digital to manage its crypto currency and digital assets investments.
Digital assets-backed securities provider ETC Group has announced what it claims is a “major milestone” in crypto investment with the listing of the first bitcoin futures contract on German exchange Eurex.
ETF provider WisdomTree has strengthened its digital assets platform with the appointment of two digital assets specialists.
Benjamin Dean joins the fund manager’s new digital assets team as a director, while Alice Liu joins the European research team as a senior associate.
Wealth management firms have turned to digital technology in the fight to maintain market share amid fee compression and the threat of new tech-based entrants, according to research.
A US-based crypto custody startup has hired the former head of the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) famous for rejecting numerous bitcoin ETF applications as a member of its advisory board.
Bloomberg has expanded its suite of crypto offering after teaming up with US-based asset servicing firm Galaxy Digital to develop an index based on decentralised finance (DeFi).
The vast majority of asset managers are set to increase their use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and asset tokenisation within the next three years, according to a survey from BNY Mellon.
