Tagged: nick cowan

October 26, 2021 @ 3:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Valereum Blockchain Plc (AQSE: VLRM) has signed an agreement to purchase 80% of the shares of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to a statement by GSX Group, the exchange group will retain the remaining 20% of outstanding… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 1:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange has announced the listing of 3iQ’s The Bitcoin Fund, debuting one of the world’s first regulated and exchange-traded Bitcoin funds on a European regulated exchange. 3iQ is a Canada based investment fund manager. The company has previously received approval from the… Read More

July 10, 2020 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase is reportedly planning an initial public offering (IPO) at some point later this year or early next. First reported by Reuters, the news really comes as no surprise as its valuation has risen dramatically and the digital asset sector of Fintech continues to gain… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 11:15 am By JD Alois  |  

  The Global Stock Exchange (GSX) Group, based in Gibraltar, has received conditional approval to operate a digital asset exchange in Malaysia. The license application received a positive review from the Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC). Malaysia is a country that has… Read More

May 27, 2020 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The GSX Group recently announced the launch of “GRID” –  platform to create and launch digital securities. GSX is the company that operates the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, among other entities. Today, tribeOS is claiming to be the first company to utilize the platform. tribeOS is… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The GSX Group, the company that operates the Gibraltar Stock Exchange and the Global Blockchain Exchange, has announced the launch of “GRID,” a platform to create and deploy “Smart Securities” or tokenized assets. The GRID is said to facilitate the tokenization of new and existing… Read More

April 23, 2020 @ 10:49 am By JD Alois  |  

The Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) in China aims to change the existing problem of the high cost of developing and deploying blockchain applications by providing public blockchain resource environments to developers. According to BSN, just like the internet, the ubiquity of access can greatly reduce… Read More

April 10, 2020 @ 12:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

It will take some time to fully understand the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but clearly the economic fallout will be profound. Markets have tanked, default risks are rising and unemployment is moving up rapidly in a historic fashion. Simultaneously governments everywhere are moving… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently, the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the leading securities regulator in France, posted a legal analysis of security tokens or digital securities. The AMF posited that while there remain certain “legal obstacles,” in their opinion national authorities can adapt to these types of… Read More

September 26, 2019 @ 7:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital Assets are the Future of Securities It is a truism that digital assets are the future of public securities. The ink on paper certificates have had a good run but the digitization of finance is upon us and securities must be digitized. The advent… Read More

July 6, 2019 @ 5:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitbond, an online lender that is in the midst of a security token offering (STO), is in discussions with the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX). Bitbond manages a lending platform that describes itself as “the first cryptocurrency based lending platform for business loans that operates globally…. Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is out with a report on Fintech/distributed ledger technology. Entitled Decentralised Financial Technologies, the document reviews the impact of “decentralization” (IE blockchain and other forms of Fintech) on global financial stability and international regulatory environment. The report is being delivered… Read More

April 16, 2019 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a crypto focused regulated exchange, has selected Kurt Looyens as its Chief Executive Officer, according to a release. Looyens was previously Country Executive for ABN AMRO Bank Spain. Looyens has been with GBX since July 2018 when he joined GBX as… Read More

April 9, 2019 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX) will list digital debt and digital fund securities on GSX Global Market (GSX GM) using blockchain technology. GSX is among the first regulated exchanges to use blockchain in this manner. The GSX can now list corporate bonds, convertible bonds, asset-backed… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a regulated digital asset exchange, has added five stablecoins to the Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). These include: Paxos (PAX), Maker (DAI), TrustToken (TUSD), USD Coin (USDC), and Gemini dollar (GUSD) will be trading on the GBX-DAX from Wednesday, March 13th…. Read More

March 5, 2019 @ 6:05 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group (GSX) has deployed a digital stock exchange prototype on a new blockchain, according to a release from the company. GSX said the prototype was joined by a demo bond issuance, on the “Securities Trading Asset Classification Settlement (STACS) Network’s Global… Read More

February 27, 2019 @ 7:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has added OmiseGo (OMG) token to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). OMG will have trading pairs with USD, BTC, and ETH on the GBX-DAX. OmiseGO is a blockchain-based payment gateway that enables peer-to-peer transactions in real-time. The OMG network  is said to… Read More

February 13, 2019 @ 7:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has listed the Iconiq token “ICNQ” to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). Since the beginning of 2019, GBX-DAX has listed XRP, EOS, TRON, XLM, and now ICNQ. In 2018, GBX-DAX received a full “Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Licence” from the Gibraltar… Read More

February 7, 2019 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

It was recently reported that Facebook has acquired Chainspace, a London-based blockchain startup described as a scalable distributed ledger and smart contract platform. The Chainspace website claims to deliver on “modern expectations of processing power, making it the platform of choice for complex real-world applications.”… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a regulated token issuance and digital asset exchange, has announced the addition of TRON (TRX) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). GBX says that TRON has been brought to the GBX-DAX by sponsor firm StratX. The new listing follows the… Read More