Here’s a round up of the main headlines on Thursday and Friday for tokenization and digital assets:
Deals
- Boerse Stuttgart Digital is the first German firm to land MiCAR license (Ledger Insights)
- Tradable tokenizes $1.7 billion in private credit backed by Janus Henderson (Ledger Insights)
- Citi tokenized deposit (RLN) architect, Tony McLaughlin departs for stablecoin clearing venture Ubyx (Ledger Insights)
- Jio platforms partners Polygon Labs for web3 (Ledger Insights)
- Nomura-backed digital asset custody firm Komainu raises $75m from Blockstream paid in Bitcoin (Ledger Insights)
- Switzerland’s PostFinance starts offering ETH crypto staking
- Coinbase enables crypto backed loans for customers via DeFi lending protocol Morpho
- Phantom crypto wallet raises $150m at $3 billion valuation
Policy / regulators
- EU Finance Ministers to discuss tokenization and wholesale payment innovation (Ledger Insights)
- Treasury Secretary nominee Bessent sees no reason for CBDC. Only mentions crypto in context of AML (Ledger Insights)
- ECB is calibrating digital euro CBDC holding limits (Ledger Insights)
- UK Payment System Regulator & FCA create new digital assets roles + workplan
- French regulator AMF outlines DLT pilot regime options
- ECB’s Piero Cipollone discusses role of central bank money in digital payments, incl digital euro and DLT payments
- Malaysia to explore supportive crypto legislation
- UK appoints Emma Reynolds as new economic secretary to Treasury who will oversee digital securities, crypto, CBDC
- US accounting association AICPA updates digital assets practice aid for accounting and auditing
Other daily news this week: Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday
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