Digital Asset Holdings - News, Articles & Research

Wall Street players pilot Canton Network blockchain platform

A host of major financial players, including Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon, have taken part in a pilot of Digital Asset's Canton Network blockchain platform for tokenised assets.

12 March 2024

Finextra TV/Sibos

Unlocking the value of digital assets

At Sibos 2023, Hanna Zubko, Co-Founder and CEO, IntellectEU, and Kelly Mathieson, Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset, discuss the rising demand for interconnected applications, explore emerging fintech opportunities, and highlight the crucial role of system integrators as digital assets become more mainstream, creating new opportunities across financial markets.

05 October 2023

News/markets

Finance heavy-hitters back interoperable financial blockchain network

BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Börse Group are among a clutch of financial market participants to have have thrown their weight behind an initiative to build an interoperable blockchain network designed for institutional asset trading.

09 May 2023

News/crypto

US banks launch digital asset settlement platform PoC

Some of the biggest names in the US banking industry are coming together on a proof of concept for a regulated digital asset settlement platform.

16 November 2022

Finextra TV/Sibos

Growing interest in CBDCs and the emergence of Regulated Liability Networks

Kelly Mathieson, Chief Client Experience Officer, Digital Asset and Marjan Delatinne, MD, Payments at SETL speak to FinextraTV at Sibos 2022, offering insight into the growing interest in regulated liability networks for digital currencies, including CBDCs, and why this is an important initiative that banks need to start exploring for the future of cross-border payments.

27 October 2022

Finextra TV/Sibos

Tokenization in financial services

Valeria Zafar, Director, Capital Markets Sales, EMEA, Digital Asset and Georg Schneider, Director of Financial Engineering, Digital Asset join FinextraTV at Sibos 2022, assessing the current climate in tokenization and why we are seeing a similar rise in other FIs, including what is required technically from legacy systems and what is needed for market participants to realize the full benefits of tokenization.

24 October 2022

Company announcement/crypto

Digital Asset accelerates tokenisation process with Daml Finance

At Sibos, Digital Asset introduced Daml Finance, a significant addition to its smart contract platform, Daml, that accelerates the tokenization process.

11 October 2022

News/crypto

SBI invests in Digital Asset for 'smart yen' joint venture project

SBI has invested in Digital Asset with the aim of creating a joint venture company in Japan for programmable money.

31 May 2022

News/markets

ASX set to further delay roll out to Chess replacement system

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is set to enforce a further delay to the cutover of its blockchain-based post-trade network, which was initially set for go-live in April 2021.

28 March 2022

Company announcement/crypto

Digital Asset rolls out Daml 2.0

Digital Asset, a software and services provider that helps enterprises build economic value through interconnected networks, today announced the general availability of Daml 2.0, the newest version of Digital Asset’s multi-party application platform.

02 March 2022

Company announcement/people

Former CFTC chairman Giancarlo joins Digital Asset board

Digital Asset, the software and services provider building interconnected networks for global enterprises, today announced that the Honorable J. Christopher “Chris” Giancarlo, former Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has joined the Company’s Board of Directors.

25 January 2022

Company announcement/wholesale

Digital Asset and SE2 plan annuity products using DLT

SE2, a leading life and annuities insurance technology and services firm, and Digital Asset, a software and services provider, today announced their strategic collaboration to create products supporting the sales and servicing of life and annuity products, leveraging distributed ledger technology.

08 December 2021