IBM Announces New Platform for Financial Institutions and Regulated Enterprises Entering the Digital Asset Economy
IBM has announced the launch of IBM Digital Asset Haven, a comprehensive platform for financial institutions, governments, and corporations to securely manage and scale their digital asset operations. Banks and governments now have a single solution to manage their digital asset lifecycle – from custody to transactions to settlement – that helps them meet compliance obligations while being integration-ready.
Developed in partnership with Dfns, a leading digital wallet infrastructure provider, Digital Asset Haven combines IBM’s enterprise-grade infrastructure and security with Dfns’s proven custody technology, which has created 15 million wallets for over 250 clients.
As tokenized assets and stablecoins gain traction, IBM Digital Asset Haven provides institutions with a secure, compliant way to modernize their offerings and engage in the growing digital asset economy. The platform includes built-in residency controls, programmable multi-party approvals, and policy-driven governance to support complex operational and regulatory needs.
IBM Digital Asset Haven is expected to be available via SaaS in Q4 2025 and Hybrid SaaS leveraging LinuxONE and/or IBM Z in Q4 2025, and planned for on‑premises in Q2 2026
Key features include:
- Transaction Lifecycle Management supports the blockchain transaction process, from automation and routing to monitoring and settlement, across more than 40 connected public and private blockchains.
- Governance and Entitlement Management via a unified framework for wallet access, policy enforcement, and transaction approvals. It’s supported by multi-party authorization workflows configurable for a broad range of operational scenarios.
- Integrated Third-Party Solutions designed to accelerate deployment with pre-integrated services for identity verification (KYC), financial crime prevention (AML), yield generation, and more. Clients can implement additional integrations via developer-friendly REST APIs, SDKs, and tools. This strategy positions partners and developers to integrate their solutions with IBM Digital Asset Haven to accelerate innovation.
- Holistic Security and Key Management is built on IBM’s infrastructure for secured digital asset operations, including support for Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Hardware Security Module (HSM)-based signing using the IBM Crypto Express 8S HSMs embedded in IBM Z and LinuxONE. IBM Digital Asset Haven also integrates IBM Offline Signing Orchestrator (IBM OSO) for secured cold storage operations, which are required by regulatory bodies in an increasing number of jurisdictions globally. Combined with quantum-safe cryptography guidance, this approach is built to give regulated institutions the flexibility to generate, rotate, and store cryptographic keys to support their compliance requirements with jurisdictional mandates while also helping to prepare digital asset security against emerging, potential quantum threats.
“With IBM Digital Asset Haven, our clients have the opportunity to enter and expand into the digital asset space backed by IBM’s level of security and reliability,” said Tom McPherson, General Manager, IBM Z and LinuxONE. “This new, unified platform delivers the resilience and data governance they have been asking for, empowering governments and enterprises to build the next generation of financial services.”
“For digital assets to be integrated into core banking and capital markets systems, the underlying infrastructure must meet the same standards as traditional financial rails,” said Clarisse Hagège, CEO of Dfns. “Together with IBM, we’ve built a platform that goes beyond custody to orchestrate the full digital asset ecosystem, paving the way for digital assets to move from pilot programs to production at a global scale.”
Source: IBM
Precisely Announces 2025 Data Integrity Award Winners Driving AI Innovation, Business Impact, and Societal Good
Precisely has announced the winners of its 2025 Data Integrity Awards, honoring organizations that have harnessed trusted data to achieve transformative results. Now in its second year, the awards celebrate enterprises that advance innovation, improve operational efficiency, and make a meaningful difference in society through high-integrity data.
The 2025 Data Integrity Awards winners include:
AI Impact
Helvetia Group
Business Impact
DoorDash
ExxonMobil
Travelers
MRH Trowe
a.s.r. Nederland N.V.
Societal Impact
Navajo Addressing Authority Department
Transport for New South Wales (NSW)
“Trusted data is the foundation for every breakthrough in AI, every business innovation, and every social initiative that changes lives,” said Kevin Ruane, Chief Marketing Officer and EVP, Engage at Precisely. “The organizations recognized with this year’s Data Integrity Awards demonstrate the power of data integrity in action – achieving measurable outcomes while inspiring what’s possible when data is accurate, consistent, and contextualized.”
Source: Precisely
BMC Selected as Overall Leader for Workload Automation in Industry Report
BMC has announced that the Control‑M platform has been awarded the overall highest score for the eighth consecutive time in the 2025 EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation (WLA) and Orchestration, a recognition it has held since 2010.
BMC’s Control-M platform, available as SaaS and self-hosted, allows customers to jumpstart and scale their automation efforts, and take advantage of the scalability and reliability that only Control-M can deliver with 30 years of innovation.
“BMC is leaning heavily into its ‘orchestrator of orchestrators’ strategy, positioning Control-M as the central orchestration fabric for enterprise IT—coordinating automation across ERP, observability, service operations, DevOps, and AI-driven systems,” said Dan Twing, president and COO at EMA.
According to the report, “BMC earns EMA’s recognition for Excellence in Mission-Critical Orchestration underscoring Control-M’s mastery of orchestrating critical business applications and modern AI/ML pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The report also highlights Control-M’s strong market leadership as “one of the most established platforms in the market” and it “combines decades of workload automation maturity with a modern, API-first architecture that spans data pipelines, cloud-native services, and DevOps toolchains.”
Source: BMC
The 22nd Annual Arcati Mainframe User Survey Wants YOU
It’s your time to shine. Planet Mainframe wants to hear your voice. The 22nd edition of the Arcati Mainframe User survey is live, and needs your insights and experiences.
The annual Arcati Mainframe Users Survey provides an independent perspective on mainframe strategy, staffing, modernization, and investment trends. This vendor-neutral resource highlights how 150+ companies approach mainframe evolution amid modernization and shifting workforce needs.
Five key takeaways from last year’s survey included:
- The Skills Gap Deepened: 62% cited the lack of modern mainframe skills as their most significant barrier, despite 46% citing talent sourcing, training, and retention as top priorities.
- Budgets Climbed, But Team Count Didn’t: 52% reported increased spending on IBM Z hardware and software. Meanwhile, 61% said staffing budgets remained the same or were reduced.
- AI and Machine Learning Still Stuck in Pilot Mode: Nearly half (48%) expressed interest in AI/machine learning, but only 13% deployed AI in production. There’s talk but hesitancy.
- Security Confidence Lower Than Desired: 53% expressed concern about mainframe security, with breaches (72%) the main fear. Yet, only about 21% had continuous monitoring in place. Security awareness may be high, but proactive investments lag.
- Cloud Integration Is Now The Norm. 71% of organizations expanded hybrid IT strategies, extending to the cloud. This trend increased consistently over the previous three years.
What will this year’s survey highlight? Only you know! Take the survey and also discover additional ways to get involved in this insightful, free publication.
Source: Planet Mainframe
Kyndryl signs European Commission pledge to advance cybersecurity education
Kyndryl has announced that it has signed on to the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Skills Academy Pledge, committing to provide free cybersecurity education to 25,000 individuals across the European Union by 2030, with a focus on underserved communities.
“Cybersecurity is foundational to a secure digital economy,” said Kris Lovejoy, Global Security and Resiliency Leader, Kyndryl. “Through the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Skills Academy, we are supporting education initiatives that help individuals and organizations build their cybersecurity capabilities.”
The pledge underscores Kyndryl’s commitment to addressing the cybersecurity skills shortage as cyber threats grow in complexity and scale. The company’s philanthropic arm, the Kyndryl Foundation, will support this training through grants to nonprofit organizations to lead local initiatives in Spain, Czechia, Hungary and Poland.
The Kyndryl Foundation has supported and enabled its nonprofit grantees to reach more than 49,000 people through cybersecurity education, training and awareness programs. The Foundation has awarded its 2025 grants to organizations that address the shortage of trained cybersecurity professionals through skills development and job placement programs, while also supporting nonprofits’ cyber resilience through education and consulting.
Source: Kyndryl
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