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Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) appoints Orelli
06 October 2026 Portugal
Reporter: Matthew Challis
Following just under three years with Bison Bank, Rafaella Orelli has joined Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) as its general manager for Portugal, leading the firm’s expansion across Iberia
People moves
Titopoulos joins SCRYPT board
06 October 2026 Switzerland
Reporter: Matthew Challis
Gabriel Titopoulos has been with the Swiss-licensed digital asset firm for just under five years, currently serving as its managing director for markets and trading
Industry
CRX Trade launches Swiss prime brokerage
05 October 2026 Switzerland
Reporter: Theodore Law
With CRX Trade, clients can post bitcoin, stablecoins, or tokenised gold as a single pool of collateral and trade across 10 connected venues
Digital money
Payward partners with the Singapore Gulf Bank
05 October 2026 Bahrain
Reporter: Matthew Challis
Payward has integrated SGB Net, the bank’s real-time multi-currency clearing network, offering 24/7 instant settlement for transactions to select clients of both firms, initially for US dollar transactions
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Tokenisation is solving yesterday’s problems
Eric Piscini, adviser to Hashgraph, considers how tokenisation’s real potential lies not in making existing financial products more efficient, but in enabling entirely new markets, products, and business models
When digital assets stop being an asset class
Institutional adoption is usually measured by how much capital moves into dedicated crypto funds. That may be the wrong measure. David Lloyd, founder and CEO at CV5 Capital, considers how the boundary that created the digital asset category is becoming progressively harder to locate
Accounting for tokenised assets
Reese Lucas, product director at FundGuard, explores how tokenisation is redefining investment accounting, the lack of native platform support for digital assets, and why firms need to build for adaptability to keep pace with regulatory changes
Tokenised IPOs: The future of going public?
As institutional players move to bring primary equity offerings onchain, tokenised IPOs promise to compress listing timelines and slash underwriting costs. But while the technology promises a future defined by atomic settlement, smart contracts, and monetary savings, the reality is one of muddled regulatory complexity and a market that might not be ready. Matthew Challis explores
Tokenised securitisations: Evolution not revolution
Ranajoy Basu, partner, and Nathan Menon, director at Squire Patton Boggs, examine how tokenisation could modernise securitisation through digital issuance, faster settlement, and automation, while leaving its underlying legal architecture largely unchanged
The future of transatlantic money
On 14 July 2026, the UK and US released a joint statement on stablecoins’ place within the future of institutional money. Matthew Challis explores the implications of a transatlantic alliance and how it could lay the groundwork for the asset class to transition from a speculative crypto workaround to a conduit of modern payment rails
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Calastone
Simon Keefe
Simon Keefe, managing director and head of digital assets at Calastone, sits down with Matthew Challis to discuss the future of digital distribution, how stablecoins and tokenised deposits are changing treasury management, and why smart contracts might be redefining the role of transfer agents
Flowdesk
Guilhem Chaumont
Guilhem Chaumont, co-founder and CEO of Flowdesk, talks with Matthew Challis about the next wave of structural changes that will bring more TradFi capital onchain, how liquidity rails will handle round-the-clock trading, and the bottlenecks currently facing real-world asset tokenisation
Axiology
Laurin Bylica
Laurin Bylica, chief commercial officer at Axiology, talks to Karl Loomes about how interoperability, secondary liquidity, and regulatory reform can move European tokenisation beyond isolated issuance and towards functioning capital markets
zerohash
Stephen Gardner
Stephen Gardner, co-president at zerohash, sits down with Matthew Challis to discuss why Tier-1 financial institutions are choosing to partner instead of building in-house, navigating complex multi-licence regimes, and how the firm is laying the infrastructure for 24/7 tokenised markets
OpenPayd
Iana Dimitrova
Iana Dimitrova, CEO of OpenPayd, speaks to Matthew Challis about the momentum surrounding US regulatory initiatives, what the UK needs to do to retain its first-mover advantage, and the viability of a sterling-denominated stablecoin
FIS
Julia Demidova
Julia Demidova, head of CBDC and digital currencies product and strategy at FIS, sits down with Karl Loomes to examine how regulatory certainty is enabling production-scale services, discuss the evolving roles of stablecoins and tokenised deposits, and explore why the next phase of adoption will be driven by operational readiness
Linework
Noel Damien Foti
Noel Damien Foti, CEO of Linework, talks to Karl Loomes about why trust, regulation, custody, and governance — not the token itself — will determine whether tokenisation becomes a permanent feature of capital markets
Adaptive
Matt Barrett
Matt Barrett, CEO and co-founder of Adaptive, talks to Karl Loomes about the architectural shift towards modular, resilient platforms, the growing role of cloud-native infrastructure, and why firms are prioritising technology ownership
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