Nomura’s crypto unit, Laser Digital, has opened an workplace in Tokyo, with Hideaki Kudo named as the brand new workplace’s consultant director and head. Kudo was beforehand an government director at Nomura’s Digital Firm, the place he was answerable for creating safety tokens for the monetary companies group and launching Japan’s first actual property safety token providing. Laser Digital, which was launched final 12 months, focuses on enterprise capital, asset administration, and buying and selling and has already invested in over ten crypto start-ups. It just lately launched a bitcoin publicity fund and bought Elysium Know-how Group to offer post-trade options for digital property.