Digital & Financial Markets

Bellementis's Digital & Financial Markets practice is the flagship of the firm and the first of its kind: a single integrated team covering securities, commodities and derivatives, banking and payments, and digital asset markets. It is built for a market in which ETFs hold crypto, T-bills are tokenized, swaps execute through smart contracts, cap tables move on-chain, and AI drives surveillance and AML, and in which regulators are still writing the rules.

We represent traditional and crypto exchanges (CeFi and DeFi), alternative trading systems, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, clearinghouses, custodians and wallet providers, payment processors, liquidity providers, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, venture capital funds, ETFs, token issuers, network developers, public and private companies entering digital markets, AI-driven trading firms, treasury and market-infrastructure startups, and trade associations.

How We Work

Clients choose Bellementis instead of a BigLaw firm that does not understand digital markets, or a crypto-native boutique that does not understand the SEC and CFTC. We bring deep market-structure literacy, economic-theory-driven regulatory analysis, and direct experience with the agencies our clients face. We advise on:

• ◆Securities, commodities, and derivatives regulatory analysis for novel products and platforms
• ◆Tokenized securities, stablecoins, and tokenization of real-world assets
• ◆Exchange, ATS, DCM, and SEF structuring and registration
• ◆Smart-contract-driven swaps, oracle-based derivatives, and on-chain market infrastructure
• ◆Broker-dealer, FCM, IB, CPO, CTA, and investment adviser registration and compliance
• ◆AI-based AML, market surveillance, and on-chain compliance systems
• ◆SEC, CFTC, FINRA, NFA, FinCEN, and state regulatory engagement
• ◆Cross-border product structuring and market access strategies