Founder of European Stock Exchange Launches Blockchain Startup
Peter Randall, one of the founders and former CEO of the alternative European stock exchange Chi-X, and Anthony Culligan, founder of peer-to-peer bitcoin trading venue Roolo, have announced to launch blockchain startup SETL. SETL will introduce a permissioned blockchain that is set to run on enterprise level servers and is said to be able to handle 100,000 transactions per second. SETL will initially target the payments business to subsequently move into financial markets including foreign exchange, bonds and possibly stocks. Much like the Bitcoin blockchain, the SETL blockchain will allow....
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Grayscale Investments has announced the launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe. The company’s Future of Finance UCITS ETF will list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Borsa Italiana, and Deutsche Börse Xetra.
Grayscale Launches ETF in Europe
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital asset manager, announced Monday the launch of its first European exchange-traded fund (ETF) called Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (ticker: GFOF). It will list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Borsa Italiana, and Deutsche Börse Xetra, the....
TMX Group, the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), has taken its first step toward investigating blockchain technology by appointing Ethereum founder Anthony Di Iorio as its first chief digital officer. The founder of blockchain industry consultancy Decentral, Di Iorio’s appointment in January follows what he called month” of collaboration with TSX that culminated in the creation of the new role. Di Iorio said that he will now help TSX navigate a number of areas of FinTech innovation more broadly, with the goal of ensuring the exchange is “on top” of emerging tech. The....
The Malta Stock Exchange has announced that it has created a Blockchain Committee to formulate a strategy geared towards addressing the blockchain technology. The committee, which will consist of members of the Exchange’s Board, chairman and chief executive, and outside experts, will be chaired by Dr. Abdalla Kablan, a Malta Stock Exchange Director, an entrepreneur and academic specializing in machine intelligence, big data, analytics, and computational finance. Mr Joseph Portelli, chairman of the Malta Stock Exchange, said in a statement : Malta and the MSE are quite fortunate to have at....