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SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services firm, is to lead an ongoing strategic fundraising round for Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum. Sygnum, which holds a Swiss banking license, said Tuesday it has secured an “eight-figure” U.S. dollar investment from SBI’s subsidiary, SBI Digital Asset Holdings, which will be used to help
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21Shares, a major provider of cryptocurrency exchange-traded products, or ETP, is launching the world’s first Polkadot (DOT) ETP.The new product, DOT ETP, will be listed on the Swiss SIX exchange on Feb. 4, 2021, 21Shares announced Tuesday.The new ETP comes shortly after Polkadot was added to 21Shares’ major ETP product
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It joins several other ETP providers on the exchange, including ETC Group, with its own physically backed bitcoin product. Source
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The BTCetc bitcoin ETP (BTCE) tracks the price of bitcoin and is physically backed. Source
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An SBI Holdings subsidiary and SIX Digital Exchange will offer digital asset services for institutional investors in Singapore. Source
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SIX will join Swisscom and Sygnum in a new venture aimed to enable Swiss banks to offer digital assets to their customers. Source
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An under-the-wraps Swiss trial testing how central bank money can be linked to financial markets built on distributed ledger technology (DLT) yielded positive results, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced Thursday. Launched by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in collaboration with BIS’ Innovation Hub and Swiss stock exchange operator SIX,
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Swiss-based Valour says its bitcoin ETP is the first with no fees. Source
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Sygnum, a digital asset finance firm with a Swiss banking license, has launched what it says is a blockchain-based alternative to listing shares on a stock exchange.On Thursday, the company announced an “end-to-end tokenization solution,” comprising of both a primary market issuance platform called Desygnate, and SygnEx, a secondary market
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Sygnum Bank now offers trading and staking of Tezos, its first listing of a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. Source
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