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Ripple announces a partnership with South Africa's Absa Bank. The Johannesburg-based financial institution will use Ripple technology to custody digital assets. According to the announcement, the collaboration includes the provision of institutional custody infrastructure for tokenized assets, including cryptocurrencies. Absa, one…
Coinbase will list BNB. The company announced this today via its roadmap, which outlines future listings. This means BNB will soon be tradable on the largest crypto exchange in the US. So far, the native coin of the Binance Smart Chain…
The crypto exchange Backpack becomes the first trading platform to offer real, SEC-registered stocks natively on-chain. This is made possible through a collaboration with the financial technology company Superstate, which integrates its on-chain infrastructure “Opening Bell” into the exchange. The partnership…
Amundi, the largest European asset manager, plans to launch a Bitcoin Exchange Traded Note (ETN) in the first quarter of 2026. The product is intended to fully comply with the requirements of the European crypto regulation MiCA. Amundi aims to offer…
The new GRADE initiative, short for Global Regulated Asset & Digital Exchanger Alliance, aims to simplify and harmonize international trading in tokenized securities, according to a press release shared with BTC-ECHO. Behind it is a group of nine financial and technology…
Standard Chartered and OKX have announced the expansion of their partnership to the European Economic Area. BTC-ECHO had previously learned of this. Following the launch of the joint collateral mirroring program in the United Arab Emirates in April of this year,…
The US government is apparently considering a pardon for Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, according to US media reports citing people close to the US president. According to New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino, the White House is currently “intensively discussing…
“Buy when the cannons thunder” – Warren Buffett has been following this old stock market wisdom for many decades, and now the infamous (Micro-)Strategy founder and Bitcoin permabull Michael Saylor is also using it. In a new X-post, the US entrepreneur…
DekaBank, together with Boerse Stuttgart Digital, is developing a crypto offering for retail customers of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe (Sparkassen Financial Group). This is according to a press release obtained by BTC-ECHO. The two companies have been successfully collaborating on crypto offerings for…
The cloudy sky today, October 10th, can't dampen the spirits of the Bitcoiners in Ingolstadt. They've gathered at the largest Bitcoin-only conference in Germany – BTC-ECHO is also there live. And with them: a who's who of the scene. Bitcoin influencers…
US investment bank Morgan Stanley is lifting its previous restrictions on crypto investments. Starting October 15, 2025, financial advisors will be allowed to offer all clients access to crypto funds – including in retirement and pension accounts. Previously, this was only…
Institutional investors are on the verge of a paradigm shift: According to State Street's new “Digital Assets Outlook 2025,” the majority of surveyed institutions plan to double their exposure to digital assets within the next three years. Nearly 60 percent plan…