Voyager Digital, a subsidiary of publicly-traded Voyager Digital (Canada) Ltd, a licensed crypto-asset broker that provides investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto-assets, has formed an API partnership with Avant-Garde Trading Securities, a new broker-dealer for retail investors launching in the first quarter of 2020.

Genesis, a specialist in digital currency trading and lending, has acquired the assets of Qu Capital, a New York-based quantitative investment and research firm.

ZEDRA, the rapidly expanding global specialist in trust, corporate and fund services has launched an end-to-end solution for the purchase and sale of Bitcoin through an escrow agreement.

Tether, the USD pegged Stablecoin (USDT), can now also be used to subscribe on BitSpread’s BlockBerry.com an online crypto wealth management and trading platform run by the BitSPread Group.

Maxim Bederov, a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor in a number of projects, including one of the first retail funds incorporating digital assets, writes that cryptocurrency exchanges are the linchpin of this nascent industry.

Prime Trust, a crypto custodian and trust company, has launched PrimeX allowing clients to instantly transfer any asset between Prime Trust account holders in real-time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. 

Huobi Group has launched Huobi OTC Desk, a fully regulated service built on Huobi's Gibraltar FSC-issued Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license supporting both crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto transactions, including those made in US dollars (USD), British pound sterling (GBP), and euros (EUR) for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and other cryptocurrencies.  

Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a specialist in trading technology solutions, and Voyager Digital (Voyager), a licensed crypto-asset broker that provides investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto-assets, have formed a strategic partnership to offer digital asset trading capabilities to institutional and retail traders through the STT platforms.

Blockchain technology company Currency.com has launched a new feature on its tokenised securities trading platform, which for the first time will enable users to trade and invest in tokenised government bonds using fiat money, bitcoin (BTC) or ethereum (ETH). 

Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the crypto-asset industry, has launched with the support of a USD6 million se round led by Distributed Global, Digital Currency Group, Morgan Creek, Galaxy Digital, Jump Capital, CMT Digital, and Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Joshua Brown, among others.