This week on the blog, Origin’s Co-founder and CTO Robert Taylor talks about our exciting structured notes extension to our Documentation product. We recently announced that MUFG’s Structured Solutions business has collaborated with Origin to automate all documentation for their Equity-linked Structured Notes business. This has been a
This week brought news that Europe’s biggest blank-cheque company, backed by LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier, is set to be wound up after failing to find a target. That is nothing new. SPAC investors have received tens of billions of dollars of redemptions
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of returning to Asia, catching up with clients and contacts in this wonderful part of the world. I first stopped in Singapore for a few days, before heading off a mini holiday with my family in Vietnam. Afterwards, we were
Every crisis has its losers. But what of the winners? Since SVB blew up – followed by two regional US banks and the rescue deal for Credit Suisse – the safety of bank deposits has come under intense scrutiny. Investor anxiety has benefitted the largest money market funds, with the likes of
Another week, another monumental news story in banking. The UBS <> Credit Suisse (CS) tie-up has been the backdrop to another jaw-dropping week. And not because there were any major disasters on CS’ balance sheet (unlike SVB), but precisely because there weren’t any disasters. A new type of
We opened our bank account with Silicon Valley Bank as soon as we incorporated the Company in April 2015. And for the past 8 years, we didn’t give it another moment’s thought. Until last Thursday. Last weekend was one of the longest weekends of my life. I remarked
I read an article this week headlined, “Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse”. The chat around one of the hottest topics in 2021 and 2022 has gone decidedly quiet and the change in sentiment has hit one of the world’s biggest companies, Meta. So, what does the future hold
One year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and this excellent, upbeat piece in The Economist got me thinking about what a wild ride global energy has been on over the last 12 months. The energy landscape today is virtually unrecognisable to the one we were looking at a
This week, the US SEC made an interesting move by fining the crypto exchange Kraken for offering “staking-as-a-service.” But what is staking, and why is this an important development in the crypto industry? What is staking? It’s important to highlight that the fine relates not to typical “lending” (as
The UK is regulating crypto assets. That means bringing the rules governing the issuance, trading and lending of crypto tokens closely into line with those for traditional financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Playing catch up The FCA has supervised crypto asset businesses from an anti-money laundering perspective since
A significant story broke in our space this week. Nivaura, a competitor/peer of ours entered into an asset purchase agreement with another DCM-focused fintech NowCM, who will acquire all digital and IP assets. Nivaura started life slightly more towards the DLT-end of the digitisation spectrum, but there were many
Another year, another World Economic Forum. As usual, there are plenty of high-profile delegates attending Davos. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US climate envoy John Kerry, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Al Gore, Tony Blair… the usuals. But this time it’s different. Some outlets are reporting on a lack of