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Calastone turned the fund industry’s paperwork into a £766 million business
A fund order should not need a fax machine. Calastone built a network around that simple complaint. Now, under SS&C, it is taking the same connectivity business into tokenised funds.
Pomelo
Pomelo (Pomelo Group) is a London- and Singapore-based payments technology company that provides a unified, API-based Payment Platform-as-a-Service. It gives financial institutions, fintechs and enterprises ready-to-use payment rails, merchant onboarding and management, transaction monitoring, and a range of acceptance methods - from QR codes and tap-to-pay to payment links and card issuing - under a single white-label platform. Founded in 2017 as Pomelo Pay, the company has grown into a regulated e-money issuer serving 2,000+ businesses across the UK and Southeast Asia.
Fnality
Fnality is a London-based financial market infrastructure company building a network of regulated, blockchain-based wholesale payment systems that let banks settle transactions in a digital representation of central bank money. Its Sterling Fnality Payment System (£FnPS), launched in December 2023, is the world's first regulated distributed-ledger-technology wholesale payment system. Backed by a consortium of more than 20 global banks and market infrastructures, Fnality aims to enable 24/7 real-time, atomic settlement for tokenised asset markets, FX and repo, extending beyond Sterling into US Dollar, Euro and other currencies.