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- Bullish has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Equiniti, a leading global transfer agent serving nearly 3,000 issuer clients, 15,000 total corporate clients, 20 million shareholders, and processing $500 billion in annual payments. - The combination creates the first fully integrated blockchain-enabled, blue-chip issuer services provider — unifying a regulated transfer agent with end…

Brian Armstrong, co-founder & chief executive at Coinbase, said on X: This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the… — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) May 5, 2026 “This…

FINRA has approved a significant expansion of the firm's broker-dealer activities.

The AI-native firm will work with companies to bring Claude into their core business operations.

Apollo announced the final close of Apollo Accord Fund VII (“Accord VII” or the “Fund”) with $1.9 billion in total commitments, reflecting broad support from a global and diverse group of investors including pension funds, financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices. Accord VII is the latest vintage of the Firm’s flagship Accord Dislocation Series, which has raised $11.6 bi…

Standard Chartered’s investment aims to accelerate scalable digital asset market infrastructure.

Institutions can access crypto custody in the same regulated infrastructure used for traditional securities.

Markets Media Group’s second-annual Global Markets Choice Awards will be held Thursday, June 4, 2026 at the Central Park Boathouse in New York. The Markets Choice Awards launched in 2013 as an event to recognize and celebrate the best of the best in capital markets trading and technology. The Markets Choice Awards was rebranded to the Global Markets Choice Awards in 2025 to more closely align wit…

DTCC will facilitate limited production trades of securities tokenized via DTC's tokenization service.

Clear Street becomes the first institutional FCM to join Kalshi’s exchange and clearing house.

Former New York Stock Exchange CEO delivered one of the more memorable acceptance speeches in MCAs history.

Industry group says US sanctions "are not tailored to address the realities of the capital markets."

Aim is to enable FCMs to process event contracts 24x7 with automation and resiliency.

BNY's Global Head of Asset Servicing said the sector is central to the future of finance.

Former DTCC exec helped shape the regulatory and operational framework underpinning modern financial markets.

Former JP Morgan Asset Management trading head was recognized for his team’s work in profiling portfolio managers’ alpha styles.

Aim is to help custodians automate the submission of SSIs into DTCC’s ALERT database.

This is the first use of the UK’s new public offers framework to make corporate bonds more accessible to retail.