Welcome Kvarn Capital, Uniswap Tooling, and America's Best Startup Employer by Forbes

In Q1 2024, Talos integrated new clients and partners, including Kvarn Capital, developed new options tooling and features, and was recognized as one of America's Best Startup Employers of 2024 by Forbes.

New Clients and Integrations 

• Kvarn Capital: Kvarn X, Kvarn Capital’s brokerage platform, to provide advanced brokerage services to its individual and institutional clients. Kvarn Capital is a distinguished digital asset firm licensed under the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA).  

• Archax: Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker, and custodian for digital assets will leverage the market-leading capabilities of the Talos platform to unlock access to a diverse array of crypto liquidity providers and venues. Graham Rodford, CEO and co-founder of Archax, commented: “By partnering with Talos, we're set to offer unparalleled liquidity, reliability, and robustness to the global institutional trading community.”
• ‍TP ICAP’s Fusion: integrated with TP ICAP's Fusion Digital Assets, a UK-regulated spot crypto digital assets exchange registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, adding a new source of institutional liquidity to the Talos network

This past quarter Talos has also expanded its list of supported liquidity providers by integrating with Banking Circle and Tradias.

Product Updates 

• Talos users can access DeFi liquidity on Uniswap: Talos now provides the ability to engage with liquidity on the Uniswap DeFi protocol. This includes access to Uniswap's v2/v3 pools on Mainnet and most major Layer 2 (L2) network protocols. 

• Submit options multi-leg orders: Talos now supports the trading of vanilla options combos such as call spreads, put spreads and calendar spreads on Deribit. Users can create a multi-leg symbol and view the live rates for the underlying legs. 

• New settlement dashboard for sell side: The dashboard allows sell-side dealers to monitor open credit exposure and easily access information such as customer credit lines, utilization, unsettled customer trades, netted settlement summaries, as well as overall settlement exposure. 
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Awards and Recognition

• Talos is one of America's Best Startup Employers: Forbes named Talos one of America's Best Startup Employers for the second year in a row. The ranking is intended to help potential candidates find “innovative and stable startups” to work for.‍
• Talos Named Best Blockchain Technology Service Provider: by FX Markets Asia Awards in March.
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News, Events, and Activity 

• Josh Peschko on the Blockchain.com Podcast: Josh Peschko, Global Head of Compliance at Talo sheds light on the role regulation plays in enhancing crypto’s legitimacy, trust, and adoption on the Blockchain.com Podcast.
  
• “Institutional Adoption under MiCA” Webinar: Talos and PolicyPartner hosted a webinar that explored the implications of MiCA - Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. The discussion reiterated that gaining a deeper understanding of MiCA’s evolving intricacies is essential for businesses aiming to thrive in the EU market.
  
• “Web3 Banking Symposium” by the Crypto Valley Association: In March, Talos’s Head of Sales EMEA, Frank van Zegveld spoke on the panel: “Infrastructure solutions available for crypto custody, payments, crypto-fiat exchange, liquidity, and trading”.

• FIX EMEA: In March, Talos’s Head of Business Development EMEA Audris Siow spoke on the panel: “Digital Assets: Boom or Bust?” 

• Japan FinTech Festival Digital Asset Summit: In March, Talos’s SVP Head of APAC Samar Sen spoke on the panel “Investing in Digital Assets".
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