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Date: Apr 21, 2026
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Former CME Group executive is betting on separated roles, daily net settlement and stablecoin collateral as traditional finance converges with digital assets. BOCA RATON, FL (JLN) - April 21, 2026 — The shift of crypto trading into the institutional mainstream is still “in the early innings,” but large banks and broker-dealers are no longer asking whether to enter the market and instead are focused on how, according to Tony Acuña, chief executive officer of EDX Markets. “We’ve gone now from people saying, ‘Well, you know, I’m not sure, I’m thinking about it’ to ‘how do we get into crypto?’” Acuña told John Lothian News in an interview at FIA’s Global Cleared Markets conference in Boca Raton. “These folks are now planning to get in. Some are very close. And I think that we’re going to see a few large folks go live this year,” he said, describing a pipeline of traditional institutions preparing to trade on platforms built to resemble familiar market structure.
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