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.
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.…
Saira Hassan is the Chief Security Officer, leading our organisation’s efforts to protect critical assets and data in an ever-evolving threat landscape. She is responsible for defining and implementing our comprehensive cyber security strategy, overseeing threat detection and response, and ensuring compliance with global security standards. Her focus is on fostering a security-conscious culture and…
From building global operating models to relocating across continents to help shape a fast-emerging financial hub, Fei Pullinger-Yang has spent her career turning strategy into reality. As Head of Operations at Zodia Markets, she sits at the centre of the company’s international expansion, ensuring the business scales safely, efficiently and with institutional-grade precision. In this…
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.
