All latest securities finance news

Bridge receives conditional approval from OCC

19 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally granted the firm approval to arrange a federally chartered national trust bank, enabling it to operate stablecoin products and services under federal oversight

Elliptic appoints Stenhouse as CFO

19 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Tom Stenhouse has held positions as chief financial officer and chief operating officer at a number of fintech companies, including Nextgen Glearing, Taptap Send, Kriya, and WiredScore

Bacchi-Howard joins Equals Money

19 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Marcus Bacchi-Howard has been appointed head of digital assets, and brings over two decades of experience in the financial services sector with him to his new role

Payward acquires Magna

19 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Kraken’s financial infrastructure platform has acquired the token management platform, which is anticipated to serve as an operational layer bringing tooling for vesting, white-label token claims, custody, and escrow workflows

BananaCrystal launches platform

19 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Built on the Hedera Network, the currency liquidity pool and prediction market are designed to enable swaps across over 150 digitised fiat currencies, and support enterprise cross-border payment management

SWIAT supports Bank of Greece

17 February 2026 Greece, Germany
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Secure Worldwide Interbank Asset Transfer platform has backed Bank of Greece in ‘Project Sovereign’, a simulation of a digital sovereign bond issuance on the blockchain

WEB3 granted MiCA license

17 February 2026 Poland
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The approval will allow the Morphic-owned firm to operate across the European Union under the new adoption framework

KBC Bank to launch regulated crypto trading services

17 February 2026 Belgium
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The service enables clients to trade a selection of crypto assets through the bank’s existing digital investment platform

SFC boosts Hong Kong’s digital asset market

16 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

As part of its latest measures to expand product and service diversity under the ASPIRe Roadmap, the SFC is enabling virtual asset brokers to offer virtual asset financing to their securities margin clients