Asset declarations will become mandatory for all SBU personnel following the 'Operation Carthage' corruption probe, Volodymyr Zelensky said. Calling the scandal 'disgraceful,' he confirmed dismissals and warned Europe of Khimprom cartel expansion.

Asseto 🤝 NUVA We’re excited to partner with @NUVAFinance to connect its onchain-RWA vaults to partners and platforms across Asia-Pacific, with @flowmark_xyz joining as curator for the DeFi strategies built on top. NUVA is a chain-agnostic, curated marketplace for institutional real-world assets onchain, co-incubated by @animocabrands and @NUVALabs. NUVA vaults hold tokenized RWAs originated by leading institutions, including Nasdaq-listed @Figure (Nasdaq: FIGR). They span assets from YLDS, the first SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin, to US residential loans such as home equity lines of credit. Users deposit stablecoins and receive liquid, composable vault tokens that can be traded and used as collateral across DeFi, with proof of reserves onchain. NUVA’s flagship vault, HOME, is the first ever permissionless DeFi vault that directly holds a portfolio of US mortgage loans. It is managed by an SEC-registered investment adviser and features a monthly policy rate supported by a targeted 5% first-loss buffer. Through this partnership, we will connect NUVA with our Asia-Pacific partner network, including licensed intermediaries, exchanges and wallets, to support integrations of NUVA products. Selected products tokenized through Asseto will become available on the NUVA marketplace, subject to NUVA's listing review and applicable eligibility requirements, while Flowmark will curate yield strategies built on NUVA vault tokens and assess their onboarding as collateral in lending markets supplied by Flowmark-curated vaults. Together, we will also explore co-structured vaults built around Asian institutional assets. Asian assets onto global vault rails, and global vault tokens into the Asian ecosystem.

Asset managers’ short positions on the Australian dollar surged to a record high in the week ended Oct. 20, as mounting Middle East tensions and jitters over the AI trade spurred a retreat from the risk-sensitive currency.

Asset-backed credit drew new money onchain for a second week running. Tokenized credit has more than doubled in a year, per @Dune's After Issuance report. About two-thirds of it is tied to traditional lending, from home-equity lines to middle-market loans.

Asseto is joining forces with AlfaR, a licensed fund services provider, to build Asia's first Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) service. Fund share registers will be recorded and maintained directly on-chain, with the on-chain record serving as the official record of ownership. The service is jointly operated. Asseto provides the tokenization technology, on-chain infrastructure and distribution network. AlfaR, whose controls carry KPMG-audited ISAE 3402 Type II certification, provides investor onboarding, NAV calculation and transfer agency. Starting with fund products, the two connect onboarding, subscription, transfer and redemption in one workflow. For asset managers, that means one ledger to run instead of two to reconcile. For investors, the shares they hold on-chain are the shares on the register. The timing matters. On September 1, the SEC proposed allowing registered transfer agents to use a blockchain as the official securityholder master file. With AlfaR, we are putting that model into everyday fund operations. Read the full breakdown of how the DTA framework works on our blog: