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Oliver Buchannon
Louis Tellier

Journalist specialized on Market Infrastructure (DeFi/TradFi).

Dec 18, 2025

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14 min read

DTCC Announces Pilot on Canton Network Following SEC No Action Letter

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) received a No Action Letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The relief allows DTCC to run a three-year pilot of a blockchain-based post-trade layer, while keeping its core clearing, settlement, and risk-management infrastructure firmly offchain.

Weekly Briefing

Dec 11, 2025

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14 min read

EU Commission Proposes Major Overhaul of Pilot Regime in Move Toward DLT-Based Markets

Last week, the European Commission proposed a set of measures designed to lay the foundations for a future European capital market built on blockchain. At its core is a major overhaul of the Pilot Regime, the EU framework that lets financial institutions trade and settle tokenized securities under regulatory supervision.

Weekly Briefing

Dec 4, 2025

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13 min read

BNP Paribas Joins European Stablecoin Consortium Qivalis

On Tuesday, the euro stablecoin consortium held its first press conference, unveiling its name, Qivalis, and introducing its management team. The group, originally formed by nine banks including ING, UniCredit and DekaBank, also announced a major addition: BNP Paribas, Europe’s largest bank, will become its tenth member.

Weekly Briefing

Nov 27, 2025

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14 min read

Société Générale Enters U.S. Market With First Tokenized Bond Issuance

Société Générale carried out its first issuance of a tokenized U.S. bond via its blockchain subsidiary SG-Forge. The move underscores the bank’s broader global push into asset tokenization, as well as its growing strategic focus on the U.S. market.

Weekly Briefing

Nov 20, 2025

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14 min read

Exclusive: ECB Weighs Building Its Own Ledger For CBDC as Market Solutions Fall Short

For several months, the ECB and the Eurosystem have been assessing which technological foundations could support a potential wholesale CBDC while preserving monetary sovereignty. According to internal notes reviewed by Blockstories, progress on market-led options has been limited, leading the ECB to increasingly examine the possibility of providing its own infrastructure rather than relying exclusively on private-sector solutions.

Weekly Briefing

Nov 13, 2025

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13 min read

BoE Proposes Stablecoin Framework with Holding Caps and Central Bank Access

On Monday, the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper outlining its proposed regulatory framework for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins. The document introduces two unprecedented features: a holding cap for users and the potential for issuers to access central bank liquidity.

Weekly Briefing

Nov 6, 2025

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15 min read

Exclusive: ECB Set to Lose Battle Over Dual-Issuance Stablecoins

According to people familiar with the matter, the European Central Bank is set to lose its campaign to ban the dual-issuance stablecoin model, after nearly a year of behind-the-scenes lobbying.

Weekly Briefing

Oct 30, 2025

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14 min read

IBM Debuts 'Digital Asset Haven' Platform With Dfns to Ease Institutional Access

On Monday, tech giant IBM announced the launch of Digital Asset Haven, a platform for institutions to custody, manage, and settle digital assets. Built with wallet-infrastructure provider Dfns, the platform runs on the same systems that already process most of the world’s payments and capital-markets operations.

Weekly Briefing

Oct 23, 2025

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14 min read

Lise Secures EU DLT License to Open Capital Markets to SMEs

French startup Lise has obtained authorization to operate a DLT-based market infrastructure under the EU’s Pilot Regime. Now it wants to open public capital markets to smaller companies.

Weekly Briefing

Oct 21, 2025

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8 min read

ODDO BHF, First European Bank to Bring Stablecoin Reserves Onto Its Balance Sheet: “This model will become a reference”

By launching EUROD, ODDO BHF has become the first European bank to issue a euro-denominated, regulation-compliant stablecoin with reserves directly integrated into its balance sheet — a setup that removes one of the main constraints banks have faced when issuing stablecoins. We spoke with Guy de Leusse, Deputy COO of Oddo BHF.

Interview

Oct 16, 2025

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14 min read

Major Banks Join Forces to Explore Issuance of Digital Money

On Friday, ten major banks, including Santander, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citi, announced they are joining forces to explore issuing a “1:1 reserve-backed form of digital money” on public blockchains, initially focused on G7 currencies.

Weekly Briefing

Oct 9, 2025

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14 min read

“Europe Needs a Unified Capital Markets DLT” — The Regulated Layer 1 (RL1) Aims to Deliver It

Last week, Frankfurt-based SWIAT announced the Regulated Layer 1 (RL1), a shared ledger for capital-markets activity that builds on the existing SWIAT network under a new cooperative governance model. The initiative unites ten European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank, DZ BANK, KfW, LBBW, Natixis CIB, and NatWest.

Weekly Briefing

Oct 2, 2025

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14 min read

Digital Assets Take Center Stage at Swift’s Sibos 2025

Since Monday, Sibos, the largest global conference for payments and financial services, has been underway in Frankfurt. As Swift’s flagship event, it also served as the stage for several big announcements.

Weekly Briefing

Sep 19, 2025

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5 min read

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.

Interview

Sep 18, 2025

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15 min read

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.

Weekly Briefing

Sep 11, 2025

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14 min read

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.

Weekly Briefing

Sep 4, 2025

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13 min read

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.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 28, 2025

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13 min read

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.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 22, 2025

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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.

Interview

Aug 21, 2025

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13 min read

Banking Lobby Pushes Back as Stablecoin Yield Loopholes Spread Across U.S. and Europe

On August 12, several major U.S. banking groups — led by the powerful Bank Policy Institute (BPI) — urged Congress to “close the stablecoin payment of interest loophole.”

Weekly Briefing

Aug 14, 2025

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13 min read

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.

Weekly Briefing

Aug 7, 2025

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13 min read

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..

Weekly Briefing

Aug 6, 2025

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8 min read

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.

Interview

Jul 31, 2025

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13 min read

Eurex Clears First Live Transaction on DLT-Based Collateral Platform

This week, Eurex Clearing became the first clearing house to complete a live transaction on a DLT-based system. Unlike other projects, it didn’t rely on tokenizing collateral and moving it onchain.

Weekly Briefing

Jul 24, 2025

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15 min read

Inside the GENIUS Act: 8 Key Questions on the U.S. Stablecoin Framework

On July 17, the U.S. House passed the GENIUS Act with a supermajority of 308–122 votes. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve answered the 8 most important questions about the GENIUS Act: what it allows, who it empowers, and what comes next.

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