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Bastion’s national trust bank charter has a six-month clock
Bastion's national trust bank charter arrived on September 18, 2026 with a shorter fuse than the two de novo charters the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) approved the same day. Because Bastion…
DTCC’s October tokenisation launch starts a three-year clock
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) takes its tokenisation service into full production in October 2026, and the most consequential line in the paperwork is the one naming when the permission ends. The Securities…
Four of Euronext’s five alternative CSDs are Euroclear’s
From Monday 21 September 2026, Euronext Securities becomes the default Central Securities Depository (CSD) for equity and euro-denominated Exchange-Traded Product (ETP) settlement on Euronext Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. Euronext is selling the change as the…
Partior’s instant payments still leave its four settlement banks to square up the old way
Partior, the tokenised interbank settlement network that has been clearing commercial cross-border flows since 2023, has spent three years telling client banks they no longer need accounts with each other's correspondents. On 17 September 2026…
Oasis Pro’s Fund/SERV seat settles in fiat, not on-chain
DTCC has admitted its first tokenisation member to Fund/SERV, and the most instructive detail is what the membership leaves untouched. Money settlement on the network still runs through the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) in…
Deutsche Bank’s crypto custody licence is due 40 months after filing
Deutsche Bank confirmed on September 16, 2026 that it will launch a digital-asset custody service for institutional and corporate clients in Europe, and the timing is more revealing than the announcement: the bank applied to…
Crypto.com’s Form 1-N names 10 stocks and no perpetual
Crypto.com's single-stock futures registration in the United States arrived as a 515-page notice filing that names 10 reference securities and not one perpetual contract. That gap — between what was lodged and what the company…
S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin to rate code alongside issuers
Three days before it agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, S&P Global led a $110 million funding round into crypto market-data firm Kaiko. Together the two deals look less like opportunistic bolt-ons than like a ratings group…
Cyber Resilience Act puts crypto wallet makers on a 24-hour clock
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has put every company selling a crypto wallet into the European market on a 24-hour reporting clock. Since September 11, 2026, a manufacturer that becomes aware of an actively…
Broadridge extends digital assets platform to US wealth firms
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) has extended its next-generation digital assets platform to U.S. wealth management firms, and the most consequential line in the announcement is not about crypto at all — it is the…