Tagged: digital securities

April 9, 2025 @ 10:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) announced that SEI Investments (Europe) Limited will partner with Ctrl Alt, a tokenization platform, and participate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DSS aims to facilitate innovation in market infrastructure and protect financial stability and market integrity by “evaluating… Read More

April 8, 2025 @ 6:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tomorrow, April 8, 2025, the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Fintech and AI, part of the House Financial Services Committee, will hold a hearing to discuss digital assets and securities. While the hearing memo is rather brief, there is a dire need to update existing securities… Read More

April 8, 2025 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Apollo Funds has committed money to back Plume, according to a note from the company. Deal terms were not revealed. Plume is a blockchain built specifically for Real World Assets or RWAs. Plume says it is building an EVM compatible environment to transform traditional financial… Read More

April 4, 2025 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Fintech and AI, has scheduled a hearing for April 9, 2025, to discuss tokenization or digital securities. The hearing is entitled: American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: Aligning the US Securities Laws for the… Read More

April 4, 2025 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ctrl Alt will explore tokenization in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox, analyzing how digital ledger technology can improve efficiencies whilst working with the FCA to “integrate these innovative models into new frameworks.” As confirmed in the announcement, Ctrl Alt has been officially admitted… Read More

March 18, 2025 @ 12:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group Inc., a technology solutions provider for capital markets, announces that the full tokenization of its Series-A Preferred Equity Security (TZROP) is complete and, at the time TZROP was “fully tokenized, it became the first digital asset security to be custodied by tZERO’s Special… Read More

March 12, 2025 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital security enabler Securitize has announced that it will utilize Redstone as its blockchain oracle to support tokenized assets on DeFi ecosystems. Securitize is one of the leading, regulated  tokenization platforms in the world. The company works with big institutions including Apollo, BlackRock, Hamilton Lane,… Read More

March 4, 2025 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

  Georgia Quinn has joined Securitize as its Chief Legal Officer. Quinn, well known in the Fintech sector, previously was General Counsel at Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered digital asset bank, but has worked at several prominent Fintechs and large law firms focusing on… Read More

December 22, 2024 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Obligate, the provider of blockchain-based capital markets infrastructure,  announced its go-live of private debt product listings on Archax, the UK-regulated digital asset platform. Via this partnership, Archax’s users can access digital debt securities issued on the Obligate infrastructure by firms from the traditional as well… Read More

December 12, 2024 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetera, a digital securities marketplace, is now allowing trading in “Blue Chip” stocks, like NVDA and “T-Bill trackers,” providing 24/7 trading on a platform powered by blockchain technology. Assetera is licensed and supervised by the Austrian Financial Market Authority and holds a MiFID II license…. Read More

December 7, 2024 @ 1:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, MatterFi, a foundational layer designed for financial services to build into the crypto ecosystem, has officially launched its enterprise-ready platform. The move follows a successful six-month beta phase. Phishing in Web3 is at an all-time high. In 2024, phishing attacks surged by 150%…. Read More

December 2, 2024 @ 9:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

2025 is shaping up to be a busy year for digital securities via blockchain, and tZERO says it is well-positioned to contribute to the growth of a unique method of providing primary raises, recapitalizations, and secondary trading. Senior Director of Business and Capital Development Ryan Zega… Read More

November 25, 2024 @ 11:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital securities are the future of financial markets, this much is clear. While the Biden administration ignored the opportunity, choosing to pursue specious objectives, expectations are high that the incoming administration will pursue the opportunity with legislation and a forward-thinking regulator at the helm. CI… Read More

November 21, 2024 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker and custodian for digital assets, announced that it has added State Street, Fidelity International and Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) funds to the range of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) that it offers. Starting with offering tokenized access to certain… Read More

November 13, 2024 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK), the largest asset manager in the world, has announced the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), which is powered by Securitize’s tokenization platform. First launched on Ethereum in March, the Fund will expand across the blockchain ecosystem with new shares utilizing Aptos,… Read More

November 7, 2024 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

R3 and its Corda platform have been selected to provide services for the European DLT [distributed ledger technology] pilot regime. Corda is the first DLT to be approved by ESMA [the European Securities and Markets Authority] The DLT Pilot Regime opened up applications in the… Read More

October 31, 2024 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital securities enabler, says it has topped $1 billion in tokenized assets. The company also reports over 500,000 accounts. In a company statement, Securities said that tokenized real-world assets on-chain have “surged” with expectations of growth to continue as their Securitize Fund Services… Read More

October 22, 2024 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new research report for the G20 on tokenization aims to highlight the various opportunities, risks and future considerations for central banks. As explained in the update shared by BIS, tokenization could potentially have significant implications for the future of finance as well as the… Read More

October 16, 2024 @ 7:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) noted that the DLT Pilot Regime has started applying in the European Union (EU) as of 23 March 2023. ESMA explained in an update that it provides the legal framework for trading and settlement of transactions in crypto-assets… Read More

September 30, 2024 @ 12:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) is now open for applications. Digital securities, or tokenized assets, are widely believed to be the future of the securities sector. While anticipation of the migration to digital from more analog issuance and trading of securities has been predicted for… Read More