Tagged: digital securities

November 14, 2022 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Join Crowdfund Insider and the experts to learn about the future of securities in a free webinar. While there has been a lot of interest in cryptocurrency, and other digital assets, securities will inevitably become digital. These regulated assets can benefit from technology like a… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Simetria Trading Solutions and Finhaven Technology, operator of FinhavenTM Private Markets, have announced a new liquidity partnership, according to a company statement. Simetria is an Israel-based Fintech utilizing blockchain technology to boost efficiency for secondary trading. Simetria is the only Fintech in Israel to have… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 11:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearstream has reached the next level of digitization of financial markets by “creating the digital instrument on D7, Deutsche Börse’s digital post-trade platform.” European issuers can now “leverage the new infrastructure to issue digital securities.” The first automated issuances were “performed by LBBW and Vontobel,… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

abrdn plc, a global investment company based in Scotland that reports £508 billion in assets and 5000 employees, has joined the Hedera Governing Council. According to Hedera, abrdn will move to make Hedera the technology of choice for investment fund tokenization. In a company statement,… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

ShiftPixy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIXY) has announced a plan to “duel list” its shares on digital securities marketplace Upstream, a platform powered by MERJ and Horizon Fintex. ShiftPixy has a current market cap of around $585 million. ShiftPixy has been going through a period of transition… Read More

August 13, 2022 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment management firm abrdn (LON: ABDN) has reportedly become the largest external shareholder in the United Kingdom’s “first” regulated digital securities exchange, Archax. Terms of the transaction have not been shared publicly. Archax was established around 4 years ago in order to offer access to… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Fireblocks, a digital asset services firms that provides custody solutions, has partnered with Tokeny – a top security token platform. According to a company statement, Fireblocks aims to provide the ability for customers to mint and manage permissioned digital assets such as securities and stablecoins…. Read More

June 29, 2022 @ 6:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, and the Federal Minister of Justice, Dr.Marco Buschmann, announced regulatory and policy changes designed to boost entrepreneurship, access to capital, and embrace the digitization of finance with digital securities – or security tokens. The Financing Act. Das… Read More

June 6, 2022 @ 9:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Parliament has posted regulations pertaining to tokenization and digital securities leveraging blockchain or distributed ledger technology. The DLT pilot plan aims to enable innovators to advance their platforms while providing a safe environment for users. To quote the document: It is important to… Read More

May 24, 2022 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OneMarketData, LLC (OMD), a key player in tick data management and analytics, recently revealed that ECXX, an asset based digital securities exchange, has chosen OneTick Trade Surveillance. ECXX is a digital asset exchange platform developed for professional traders and accredited investors, enabling clients to purchase… Read More

April 8, 2022 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth managers may now introduce more of their end-investors to the world of private investments via a newly-launched institutional service on digital securities exchange ADDX. Corporate treasuries and family offices may also “take part in the space via a corporate service to diversify their portfolios… Read More

April 3, 2022 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Markus Levin, Co-founder at XYO, a platform focused on developing a trustless system of Oracles that may enhance the existing location data systems. Levin talked about how the XYO platform is leveraging distributed ledger tech (DLT), smart contracts, and decentralized… Read More

March 30, 2022 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) has teamed up with digital securities exchange ADDX in order to tokenize a class of shares “issued by Hamilton Lane Global Private Assets Fund, to enable access to the private markets for a broader set of investors… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear, a securities settlement house, has reportedly joined a consortium of banking institutions that are developing a payment solution for tokenized assets in the most recent indication of major institutions working with emerging players in crypto-related tech. Belgium- based Euroclear noted that it had acquired… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

An email distributed this week by Tokeny CEO Luc Falempin provided some perspective as to why Tokeny opted to utilize Polygon as opposed to other blockchain options. Tokeny is a leading European tokenization or digital security platform. The Luxembourg-based firm is building compliance technology for… Read More

January 31, 2022 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

  Societe Generale, the 3rd largest global bank based in France, has listed security tokens on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE). These are the first securities admitted to the exchange that utilizes blockchain or a public Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). Since April 2019, Societe Generale… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a top digital security platform and trading venue, has listed COSIMO X – a tokenized VC Fund. The security is offered by COSIMO Ventures, a VC firm that is enabling access to blockchain and crypto projects with the fund. Rob Frasca, Managing Partner of… Read More

November 4, 2021 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Exodus Movement (tZEROATS:EXOD), a digital asset firm that issued shares under Reg A+ hitting the $75 million funding cap, says it will repurchase up to $2 million of its shares at a per-share price of up to $55. Currently, shares trade at $21 – rising… Read More

October 20, 2021 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital security platform that helps companies tokenize, manage, and trade assets, has announced that it has hired former SEC Trading and Markets Director Brett Redfearn as Senior Strategic Advisor. Redfearn will serve as Chairman of the company’s Advisory Board while advising Securitize CEO… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UOB (SGX: U11) and digital securities exchange ADDX have concluded the digitization and digital custody of the inaugural sustainability-linked bond recently introduced by Sembcorp Industries. This initiative comes amid “a rise in the use of digital securities to enhance the efficiency of bonds and other… Read More