The growth of investment in digital assets could end up damaging traditional investment managers, according to speakers at an online event last week.

UBS has joined Broadridge Financial Solutions' distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform. 

SETL, a London based blockchain company, has published a whitepaper on how to “Realise the Regulated Internet of Value” based on a multi-asset approach to tokenisation. 

Bison Trails, a blockchain infrastructure platform-as-a-service company, is working with Provenance to enable secure participation in its public proof of stake network that enables traditional financial institutions to offer blockchain services. 

Digital Assets AG, a Swiss-based firm focusing on the design, structure, and issuance of tokenised financial instruments, is to bring its tokenised stock infrastructure to the Solana blockchain. Additionally, it will launch the first free-floating security tokens allowing the risk-free, compliant transfer of tokenised stocks exclusively on FTX during its initial debut.  

Banque Syz has joined Wecan Comply, the first global compliance services platform dedicated to private banks and independent asset managers based on blockchain technology. Syz thus joins other major banks of the Swiss financial services industry that already use this platform.

GTS, an electronic market maker across global financial instruments, is joining the Pyth Network, a decentralised financial market data distribution platform. 

CoinShares, the world’s largest publicly listed digital asset investment firm, is to collaborate with Blockdaemon, the institutional crypto infrastructure provider. Through this partnership, CoinShares and Blockdaemon aim to build staking and blockchain networking infrastructure into its larger trading and asset management platform. 

The pilot phase of "Fideiussioni digitali" (digital sureties), the project promoted by CeTIF, SIA and Reply – which also saw the involvement of the Bank of Italy, the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance (IVASS) and the Italian Finance Police – to digitalise the surety management process on blockchain, has been successfully concluded.  

LedgerEdge, an ecosystem for corporate bond trading, has selected Exactpro to deliver functional testing and ensure the resilience of its global corporate bond trading platform powered by distributed ledger technology.