By Elliot Gulliver-Needham Sygnum Bank, Hamilton Lane, and Apex Group have launched a cross-industry project to expand access to private markets using blockchain. The groups have launched a new share class registered on direct ledger technology (DLT), which automates and integrates traditionally separate fund management functions. The first fund to feature the new share class is Hamilton Lane’s Luxembourg-based Global Private Assets fund, which has had an average annual performance growth of 14.6 per cent since 2019. Sygnum, a digital assets banking group, will provide the technology, which is…