Our Digital Assets Industry Roundtables bring together leaders and experts from across the industry, from both leading digital assets and traditional finance firms, to explore the opportunities and challenges the digital assets industry faces.
“Stablecoins: the first killer app”, is a report that has been co-authored by Nick Philpott, Co-Founder of Zodia Markets and Geoff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Asset Research at Standard Chartered Bank.
Stablecoins were initially designed to facilitate trading, lending, and borrowing in digital assets, primarily on digital asset trading platforms (centralized exchanges, or CEXs). However, we are now witnessing a shift from these original purposes toward “real-world” applications akin to those provided in traditional finance (TradFi). Stablecoins are being used to save in USD terms, to transact in USD terms and for cross-border USD-to-USD transactions. This report explains the unique role that stablecoins are playing in replacing traditional financial instruments and some of the risks associated with that shift.
N3XT, the blockchain-powered narrow bank built for instant, programmable B2B payments, and Zodia Markets, the digital asset platform enabling institutional capital through stablecoins, today announced a partnership to deliver real-time U.S. dollar settlement across Zodia Markets’ client base. The collaboration tackles a core friction in digital asset markets, where fragmented banking access and restricted operating…
Key metrics, client milestones and market shifts that are reshaping the future of finance.
BCB Group and Zodia Markets today announced the successful go-live of Zodia Market’s integration onto BCB’s BLINC Network. BLINC (The BCB Liquidity Interchange Network Consortium) is BCB Group’s proprietary instant payments network, offering instant, reliable, 24/7/365 and limitless settlement for the BCB client ecosystem, which includes exchanges, industry-leading liquidity, FX providers, stablecoin issuers, traders, funds…
Zodia Markets, the institutional-grade digital asset marketplace backed by Standard Chartered and OSL Group, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with global digital finance provider, Currency.com. Under this collaboration, Zodia Markets will provide Currency.com with deep liquidity and robust execution services, enabling the platform to scale its support for large volume, high notional transactions.…
Brian McGleenon 14 June 2024·4-min read BlackRock (BLK) is leading the charge in the mass tokenisation of real-world assets on blockchains, according to Zodia Markets Ireland chair Michael Walsh.
The deal will strengthen Zodia Markets’ over-the-counter business while allowing Elwood to conentrate on its software-as-a-service activities.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to follow the strategy employed in approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds for spot Ethereum ETFs, starting with rejections and ultimately granting approval on the initial final deadline on May 23, according to Standard Chartered Bank.
