Tagged: digital securities

June 17, 2024 @ 2:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last month, the Tokenization Report  Act of 2024 (HR 8464) was introduced into Congress. The House legislation is sponsored by Representative William Timmons, a Republican from South Carolina. The bill, as it stands today, compels multiple federal authorities to review the potential of taking traditional… Read More

May 24, 2024 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the successful launch of the first fund leveraging iCapital’s new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The fund is distributed by UBS Wealth Management. This marks an important technological advancement “for… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO is a recognized trailblazer when it comes to digital securities. An early adopter of the concept of tokenization and digital assets, today, tZERO is a regulated Broker Dealer and an SEC-approved alternative trading system (ATS). Utilizing blockchain technology, tZERO enables both digital securities and… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization platform Tokeny has integrated with Telos EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)> In a blog post, the digital security enabler said that by integrating Telos EVM, it will expand its reach for issuers to tokenize assets with while benefiting from Telos’ blockchain technology. The integration is… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

While everyone understands that securities will inevitably become digital, policymakers have been slow to provide an ecosystem to support the nuances intrinsic to the transition from analog. Eventually, digital securities will become the dominant sector of digital assets, and clear-cut rules are needed. Today, the… Read More

March 28, 2024 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitbond is working with NYALA for issuers of crypto securities (digital securities) under the German Electronic Securities Act. Combining Bitbond’s “bank-grade” tokenization infrastructure with NYALA’s BaFin-regulated Crypto Securities Registry services, their clients would aim to “benefit from a scalable issuance platform for bonds, certificates, and… Read More

March 28, 2024 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Diamond Standard Fund, supported by Diamond Standard and Horizon Kinetics, has been tokenized by Oasis Pro and listed on Oasis Pro Market’s SEC-registered ATS, via the Avalanche C-Chain. The Fund provides investors access “to an approximately $1.2T natural resource through an asset-backed coin licensed… Read More

January 5, 2024 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital securities are broadly acknowledged as the future of all securities. Yet, progress has been slow for regulators around the world to craft the needed rules to enable digital to replace existing analog securities. The advent of distributed ledger technology (DLT), or blockchains, is expected… Read More

December 15, 2023 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The ERC3643 Standard has achieved Final Status in the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP), according to a note from Tokeny. Tokeny is a digital asset enabler that is focused on digital securities. The company has already partnered on billions of dollars of issued securities. This past… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokeny, a top digital asset enabler based in Europe, has received a strategic investment from Apex Group. The terms of the deal were not revealed, with Apex being labeled the “strategic lead” in the round, which did not mention other investors. Tokeny provides a compliant… Read More

December 13, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Today, less than 0.25% of total global assets are “represented on blockchain infrastructure, leaving massive efficiency gains uncaptured,” according to an update from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). Coinbase says that its goal is “to close this gap by enabling institutional use of next-generation financial technology.” Project Diamond… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 2:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) has listed the “first digital native security” or “digital native note (DNN)” to be admitted to trade in the European Union. As was reported earlier today, R3 worked with the World Bank to issue the security on its Corda blockchain…. Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X in coordination with Polygon Labs is pleased to announce 21X is building an ESMA regulated market infrastructure for tokenized securities “on the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain.” 21X and Polygon Labs are collaborating in order “to advance asset tokenization and trading within the Polygon ecosystem.” Polygon… Read More

September 10, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Michael Wong  |  

Tykhe Capital Group Limited (Tykhe) unveiled the PRINCE Token today, marking Hong Kong’s premier real estate fund security token offering (STO) accessible to professional investors. This initiative is the inaugural STO sanctioned under the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) regulations. Enabled by Tykhe’s virtual asset… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 9:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mirae Asset Securities, an investment firm and brokerage with more than $500 billion in AUM, has chosen Polygon to pursue digital securities or asset tokenization. According to a note from Mirae, the Mirae Asset Security Token Working Group is working to build the infrastructure for… Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital security platform Securitize will become the first entity to enable tokenized securities in the European Union – as well as the US. Securitize has been approved for tokenized assets under an EU pilot regime. The company holds security licenses in both the US and… Read More

July 19, 2023 @ 2:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

European tokenization platform Tokeny has announced that it has partnered with Dfns to offer an “all in one tokenization platform.” Dfns is a cybersecurity firm enabling crypto wallet infrastructure, offering a wallet as a service product. Dfns offers an API-first key management solution (KMS) to provide… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Prometheum Ember Capital LLC, a subsidiary of Prometheum Inc., has received approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to operate as a special-purpose broker-dealer for digital asset securities. Prometheum states that they are the first broker-dealer to receive this type of approval from FINRA…. Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 5:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, during its earnings call, OTC Markets (OTC:OTCM) revealed that on May 5th, it had received FINRA approval to provide services for digital assets which are securities. In the May 9th earnings report, R. Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO of OTC Markets, stated:… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital securities firm Securitize and digital asset wealth platform Onramp Invest announced the beginning of broadened and distributed access to tokenized private equity funds from leading investment firms, including Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE). Beginning now and expanding over the coming weeks, “at least four private… Read More