All custody and administration news

Bitfinex lists five new tokenised bitcoin treasury company products

01 September 2026 El Salvador
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The offering is designed to enable investors to access securities issued by global bitcoin treasury firms, including Strategy, Metaplanet, H100, and Capital B

Coincheck Group and DFNS form Japan-based partnership

01 September 2026 Japan
Reporter: Matthew Challis

DFNS’s wallet-as-a-service capabilities will be deployed to support Coincheck’s Japanese subsidiary across transaction lifecycle management, workflow orchestration, and governance controls, among others

Taurus enables institutional connections to Swift’s ledger

26 August 2026 Switzerland
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Swift smart contracts have been integrated into Taurus-CAPITAL, its tokenisation offering, and its custody solution Taurus-PROTECT, extended to bank-issued tokenised money and 24/7 cross-border payment use cases

Northern Trust partners with Lukka to improve digital asset data access

10 August 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The partnership will expand Northern Trust’s services to include improved access to digital asset data, giving clients access to transaction history and point-in-time balances with past views

Spotex and BitGo partner to expand custody and prime brokerage access

05 August 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The partnership seeks to offer eligible clients a more secure and capital-efficient way of accessing digital asset liquidity through the Spotex institutional electronic communication network

BitGo and Derive Labs to expand institutional access to onchain options

05 August 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Eligible institutional clients will gain access to Derive’s onchain derivatives markets, with collateral held at US-chartered BitGo Bank & Trust, intended to support more capital-efficient onchain markets

Galaxy partners with BNY on institutional staking

04 August 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Eligible institutional clients can access staking within BNY’s broader servicing model, with additional integrated capabilities such as fund accounting, tax reporting, payments, and client reporting, where applicable