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Capital markets & digital assets

Venues, desks and issuers are judged on what happens after the trade: whether the instruction settles, whether the position reconciles, and whether the register can be produced on demand. The interesting engineering in this sector sits behind the price, not in front of it.

Where we are usually engaged

Venue and desk infrastructure

Order handling, matching, quote handling and trade capture, with the settlement instruction feed treated as the product it is.

Issuance and the register

Transfer restriction, the authoritative register of holders, and its reconciliation against a transfer agent.

Custody boundaries

Which balances are held, by whom, under what approval, and how a client’s position is proven at a point in time.

The question we ask first

What does your firm have to be able to prove about a position, to whom, and how quickly?

The proof obligation decides the architecture. Most desks discover theirs during a first audit rather than during a design review.

GDA Group is a merchant bank in digital assets and the capital-markets half of this firm. Where an engagement needs financing, private placement or OTC execution alongside the build, it is one counterparty rather than two.

The capital-side coverage of this sector: Financial Services & Fintech on gda.group.

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