This week, we just released our annual financial results. While we’re not (yet 🙂) large enough to be putting together laminated and glossily printed 200-page annual reports, I thought it might be an opportune moment to highlight a few of our recent successes.

This week on the blog, Origin’s Co-founder and CTO Robert Taylor talks about our exciting structured notes extension to our Documentation product.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 for the metaverse and one of its biggest proponents, Mark Zuckerberg?

You've undoubtedly heard of ChatGPT. You may have even had a play with the technology and fed it some prompts.

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.

This week, the US SEC made an interesting move by fining the crypto exchange Kraken for offering “staking-as-a-service.”

What is Britcoin? And what does it mean for both crypto and Britain?

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.

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.

Another year, another World Economic Forum.

As usual, there are plenty of high-profile delegates attending Davos.

This week, Goldman cut over 3000 jobs across the firm. They’re hardly an outlier, but for some of the younger members, this may seem like a shock.

I don’t often talk about us on the blog, but I thought I’d share a few of the highlights that we celebrated. Find some of our major wins here:

This week we had the privilege of catching up with friends and clients at our annual drinks event in Paris. It got us thinking about the nature of the modern financial hub and how the status of different cities has evolved in recent years.

We asked AI what it thinks about the future of capital markets. Here are the results.

This week, the ECB has been vocal in sharing its prognosis for the future of bitcoin. It claims that the crypto-asset has embarked on a road to irrelevance. I think this is incredibly naive.