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Payward receives preliminary VARA approval

21 May 2026 UAE
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Kraken’s parent company will be able to operate under a broker-dealer, investment, and management licence from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, offering a range of institutional services

Archax becomes TCMAG member

21 May 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The Tokenized Cash Management Advisory Group is a practitioner-led body that sets out to define and test the requirements for institutional money

Impact Settlement Capital receives FSCA approval

21 May 2026 South Africa
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The South African Financial Sector Conduct Authority has authorised ISC as both a licensed Financial Services Provider and Crypto Asset Service Provider

Ripple Prime integrates with EDX

20 May 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Ripple Prime’s clients will be able to access EDX Markets and EDXM International spot and perpetual future liquidity for digital assets within a unified prime brokerage framework

CommBank, J.P. Morgan, ASX, and HQLA^x complete RBA trial

20 May 2026 Australia
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The collaboration highlights how digital currencies and digital collateral records can improve the speed, efficiency, and resilience of Australia’s US$350 billion repo market

Barrientos joins Wells Fargo

20 May 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Natasha Barrientos has joined the firm as head of digital assets within its global payment and liquidity business, where she will shape its institutional digital asset strategy

Li joins Xapo Bank

20 May 2026 Asia
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Eileen Li has been appointed as the bank’s relationship manager in APAC, where she will be responsible for the onboarding and maintenance of its clientele

Marketnode named as authorised distributor of WisdomTree’s digital funds

20 May 2026 US, Singapore
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Eligible clients introduced by Marketnode will integrate via WisdomTree Connect, offering institutional participants access to tokenised funds and enabling access to available digital funds

DigiFT partners with Franklin Templeton

20 May 2026 Singapore
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The firms will make the Benji technology platform available to accredited and institutional investors, with support for 24/7 transferability between permissioned wallets and near-instant onchain settlement

ARP Digital integrates into the Fireblocks Network for Payments

19 May 2026 Bahrain
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The collaboration aims to allow fintechs, payment service providers, and financial institutions using the Fireblocks Network to access regulated on/off-ramp and settlement infrastructure across GCC currencies through a single counterparty

Vayana adopts Chainlink as its oracle infrastructure provider

19 May 2026 India
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

This move is to support the issuance, distribution, and settlement of institutional tokenised assets in India

CACEIS to appoint Barbéris as deputy CEO

19 May 2026 France
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Jean-Jacques Barbéris joins CACEIS from Amundi, where he served as head of Institutional and Corporate Clients Coverage and oversaw the ESG department