Spot On: Institutional Crypto Integration

Across the wide, global landscape of crypto markets, financial institutions often face challenges in connecting to venues, managing liquidity and coordinating order flows. To tackle this challenge they often to turn to order management systems providers like Talos.

But as the industry gets more sophisticated and complex, the scope of services offered has to keep up as well. As it develops to keep up with demand, Talos and its Co-founder/CEO Anton Katz have collected unique insights on needs and preferences of financial institutions who are expanding their operations.

In this episode of RULEMATCH Spot On, host Ian Simpson discussed the state of liquidity in crypto, the developing institutional crypto space as well as Talos’s expanding feature set with a view towards new business opportunities and the coming world of tokenization.

Episode highlights

(2:16) A Talos perspective on crypto liquidity fragmentation

(9:19) Fragmentation of the stablecoin space

(13:38) The main trend among stablecoins

(14:38) Top considerations for choosing a venue

(19:16) Risk as a sizing function

(20:51) Comparing market models in crypto

(24:22) How Talos’s focus is changing over time

(27:15) How latency is changing the game

(29:15) Why TCA is becoming so important

(35:10) Fragmentation among settlement models

(40:59) Tools to handle the flood after ETF approvals

(43:13) Diving into PBs

(49:10) Will regulation change the venue landscape?

(52:40) The shadow of MiCAR

(56:20) Peering into the future with tokenization

(1:00:24) Looking into the crystal ball with stablecoins and lending/borrowing

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