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Inside WisdomTree's Tokenization Strategy with Maredith Hannon
Last week, WisdomTree unveiled its first tokenized private credit fund (CRDT), available to both retail and institutional clients. We spoke with Maredith Hannon, Head of Business Development, Digital Assets at WisdomTree, to learn more about the firm’s strategy.
Exclusive: Losing the Regulatory Race, France Pushes to Shift CASP Supervision to ESMA
On Monday, the French financial supervisor (AMF) published an op-ed co-authored with its Italian and Austrian counterparts calling for the supervision of MiCA-regulated CASPs to be transferred to ESMA, the EU’s financial regulator.
Boerse Stuttgart Group Unveils Seturion, a Pan-European DLT Platform for Financial Institutions
The platform builds on technology first deployed in Switzerland, where Boerse Stuttgart’s subsidiary BX Digital — a FINMA-regulated DLT trading venue — already uses Seturion as its settlement layer.
Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck Acquires Aplo to Accelerate EU Expansion
On Tuesday, Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest crypto exchanges, announced the acquisition of Aplo, a Paris-based digital asset prime brokerage. The deal gives Coincheck a direct presence in the European market while providing Aplo with deeper liquidity and stronger balance sheet capacity.
Exclusive: The State of Kinexys in 2025 — Scaling Clients, Expanding Networks
Blockchain acceleration: Over the past weeks, Kinexys — J.P. Morgan’s blockchain division — has been accelerating client adoption, adding names like FedEx, clearing house Marex, and payments provider Corpay, among others. Amid these recent developments, we sat down with Zack Chestnut, Head of Business Development at Kinexys.
Inside Apex’s Tokenization Strategy with its Global Head of Digital Assets
After acquiring the Luxembourg-based startup Tokeny in May, one of the world’s largest fund administrators is set to tokenize $300 million worth of SkyBridge hedge funds, with plans to accelerate further in the coming months. We spoke with Daniel Coheur, Tokeny’s founder and newly appointed Global Head of Digital Assets at Apex Group, to learn more about the firm’s strategy.
S&P Issues First-Ever Credit Rating for a DeFi Protocol
On August 7, S&P Global Ratings issued its first-ever credit rating for a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, assigning Sky Protocol — formerly MakerDAO — a B-. The assessment used S&P’s global scale, placing Sky’s risk profile alongside that of traditional lenders worldwide rather than under a bespoke DeFi framework.
S&P’s First DeFi Credit Rating: Inside the Sky Protocol Assessment with Andrew O'Neill (S&P Global)
On August 7, S&P Global issued its first-ever credit rating for a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, assigning Sky Protocol — formerly MakerDAO — a B-. We got an inside view with S&P Global's Managing Director Andrew O'Neill.
TradFi Veteran Joins Tokenization Platform Centrifuge as COO: “This Feels Like the Early ETF Days”
After two decades in ETFs at firms like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, Jürgen Blumberg has joined Centrifuge and Anemoy to help bring fund management onchain. In this interview, he explains why tokenized funds are starting with distribution, where today’s wrappers fall short, and how real transformation will come from rebuilding issuance, pricing, and liquidity at the protocol layer..
Exclusive: Inside BBVA's Crypto Playbook – Interview with Francisco Maroto (Head of Digital Assets)
In this exclusive conversation, BBVA’s Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets Francisco Maroto explains how the bank went from early blockchain experiments to launching MiCA-regulated crypto services across Europe. He shares why BBVA chose to build its own infrastructure, how it’s thinking about tokenization, and why the bank is opening its platform to other institutions.
