Coinbase and Standard Chartered have announced an expanded partnership to jointly explore the development of a full range of digital asset services solutions for institutional clients, including trading, custody, staking and lending. The upgrade builds on the two companies' existing business relationship in Singapore, where Standard Chartered currently provides Coinbase customers with real-time Singapore dollar transfers. With JPMorgan Chase introducing the JPM Coin deposit token to Coinbase's L...
CME Group senior managing director Tim McCourt said in an interview with Hong Kong media Ming Pao that the amount of unpositioned squaring contracts for CME's virtual currency instruments has approached 40 billion US dollars, and the investment market demand from the Asia-Pacific region is very strong.

DYDX joins Aave and Uniswap in 21Shares’ DeFi lineup, showing how protocols are being repackaged for traditional investors.
Pointing to the IMF's "overstretched mandate", Mr. Bessant called for a "course correction" with the World Bank and said the Trump administration was "eager" to work with the two institutions as long as they remained true to their mandates. Click to view...
The Core Foundation has partnered with institutional lending protocol Maple Finance and custodian companies BitGo, Copper, and Hex Trust to expand deeply into the bitcoin staking space. Core's IstBTC token allows institutional participants to remain securely within a trusted custodian partner while receiving benefits from bitcoin holdings without the risk or operational burden of smart contracts. Maple will issue a liquid staking token in the coming months, which will allow trading firms and ass...
As of December 31, 2024, institutional investors held 25.4% of the assets under management (AUM) of spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling $26.80 billion. Vetle Lunde, head of research at K33 Research, said that the proportion of assets under management of Bitcoin ETFs held by institutional investors increased by 113% between the third and fourth quarters of 2024. In addition, as total assets under management jumped 69% to $78.80 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, the assets under management held by...
According to market news, the Reserve Bank of India has relaxed investment norms for all Indian Financial Institutions Groups.
1. Central Huijin will enter five Financial Institution Groups. 2. Central Bank: RMB loans increased by 5.13 trillion yuan in January, and RMB deposits increased by 4.32 trillion yuan. 3. Central Bank: The increase in social financing in January was 7.06 trillion yuan, 583.30 billion yuan more than the same period of the previous year; M2 money supply increased by 7% in January. 4. More than 50% of private placements achieved positive returns in January, and the bond strategy achieved a "good st...
On February 17, according to Cointelegraph, the Bank of Italy and the securities regulator are in discussions with crypto service providers to ensure adequate safeguards are in place to deal with financial and cyber security risks. Fabio Panetta, the governor of the Bank of Italy, discussed key issues such as cyber security risks related to crypto assets, digital finance, and global and European regulation at the 31st AssiomForex Congress on February 15.
According to Trader T, 1,041 institutions reported holding BlackRock Spot, the Bitcoin ETF IBIT, in the fourth quarter of 2024, a 55% increase from 672 in the third quarter of 2024. In addition, institutions doubled their bitcoin holdings in the fourth quarter to 166,000 bitcoins, correspondingly, 30% of the shares were held by reporting institutions, compared to 19% (+ 58%) in the third quarter.