Capital markets

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler and Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Nellie Liang see urgency in shoring up liquidity in government debt markets during times of stress.

Btech Consortium, a partnership between several small banks, a venture capital firm and an asset manager, will identify emerging technologies that meet their members' near-term needs.

Bank loans to private equity, mortgage companies as well as other lightly regulated — and increasingly volatile — industries have soared in recent years. The central bank says it needs to know how leveraged those borrowers are and how much risk they pose to the banking system.

Both sides in the litigation over 2012 Federal Housing Finance Agency amendments to stock purchase agreements say they're weighing their options.

The crypto custodian Copper Technologies has obtained $196 million in fresh funding this year, as part of an ongoing series C investment in the business.

The bank's CIO says the emerging technology will let it run market simulations at a much faster pace.

Citigroup's venture capital investing group made its first digital-asset seed investment in a Hong Kong-based digital-asset management firm. 

Tally Technologies, a startup that automates credit card payments, has tripled its valuation to $855 million in a funding round led by Sway Ventures.

The parent company of Silicon Valley Bank has hired a law firm to assess its "Access to Innovation" effort. That program aims to provide support, including more funding, to startups and venture firms that were started by women and members of certain minority groups.