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Digital assets saw a new weekly record as inflows hit $2.9 billion last week. Bitcoin recorded inflows of $2.86 billion, while Ethereum, Solana and Polygong saw minor outflows. CoinShares shared the details in its Digital Asset Fund Flows report published on Monday, March 18. The crypto investment space saw a record $2.9 billion in inflows last week, digital assets manager CoinShares says. Per the report, the figure beat the previous week’s $2.7 billion, with this a seventh consecutive week that crypto investment products are seeing inflows. “ This week’s in flows have pushed year-to-date in flows to US$13.2bn, smashing the full 2021 in flows of US$10.6bn ,” CoinShare’s global head of research James Butterfill noted in the Digital Asset Fund Flows report published on Monday, March 18. Bitcoin saw inflows of $2.86 billion In a week where Bitcoin price shot to a new all-time high above $73k before flipping negative to test lo...

With the latest move, the U.K. hopes to bolster liquidity in its asset management market. British investment managers have received an approval to develop tokenized funds with the help of blockchain technology as the country seeks to benefit from the global digitization trend. As reported by Reuters, investment managers in the U.K. have been authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial services regulator, to start offering tokenized funds, albeit for mainstream assets only. Michelle Scrimgeour, who is the sitting chair of a working group tasked with aligning with the FCA on the matter, told the press that fund tokenization has “great potential to revolutionize how our industry operates, by enabling greater efficiency and liquidity, enhanced risk management and the creation of more bespoke portfolios.” You might also like: UK treasury secretary unveils new law to strengthen digital asset industry The move is expected to help the U.K. to...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in collaboration with leading financial institutions like JPMorgan, DBS, and BNY Mellon, has embarked on a project to explore the potential of asset tokenization, a move that could significantly impact the future of financial transactions and asset management. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has embarked on a noteworthy venture to explore the realm of asset tokenization. Collaborating with major financial players like JPMorgan, DBS and BNY Mellon, this initiative is part of the larger Project Guardian, a collaboration that includes international regulatory bodies such as Japan’s FSA, the UK’s FCA and Switzerland’s FINMA. This endeavor by MAS involves rigorous testing of various digital asset applications, including bilateral digital asset trades, foreign currency payments, multicurrency clearing and settlement, fund management and automated portfolio rebalancing. Notably, JPMorgan and Apollo have demonstrated a ...

OKX teams up with Komainu and CoinShares for institutional asset trading. CoinShares trades on OKX, while Komainu safeguards assets, mitigating counterparty risks. The collaboration establishes a legally robust mechanism, enhancing the reliability of institutional transactions. In a strategic move aimed at fostering institutional adoption of digital assets, cryptocurrency exchange OKX has entered into a partnership with custody provider Komainu and asset manager CoinShares. This collaboration, designed to facilitate round-the-clock trading of segregated assets, addresses a crucial concern for institutional traders—counterparty risks. The partnership comes right on the heels of another OKX partnership with Polygon that saw OKX launch a ZK-powered L2 network built with Polygon CDK. Mitigating counterparty risks with a traditional touch In this innovative partnership, CoinShares will execute trades on the OKX exchange, while Komainu, functioning as a th...

Russia’s Finance Ministry official hopes that liquidity from the crypto market will help the local business to overcome sanctions pressure. Digital financial asset s (DFAs), a tokenized form of traditional financial instruments issued by Russian-only companies, appear to have failed to attract significant capital from local investors despite the Bank of Russia’s efforts to position these asset s as a better alternative to crypto . According to Russian finance ministry official Ivan Chebeskov, it is still too early to say that DFAs have raised many investments, even though the first issuance of DFAs was conducted in June 2022. As reported by the Russian state news agency TASS, the ministry is now betting on bringing investors from the crypto market, given this industry allocated enough liquidity to support Russia’s economy. “In our opinion, large investments in the digital financial asset s market will occur when we are able to combine what we call the cry...