Tagged: securities

May 16, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at TWINO notes that they have launched a Cashback bonus campaign. As noted in a blog post by TWINO, you can  “enroll in the campaign and earn a 2% cashback bonus for investments in Polish Loan Securities during the Cashback period.” The campaign… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CAT Financial Products Ltd. (CATFP), which claims to be one of the leading independent Swiss providers of securities and investment services for structured products, has transformed its front to back office processing efficiency “by implementing the international multi-asset post-trade processing solution” from global Fintech Broadridge… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 3:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto appears to have chosen an unlikely supporter in its ongoing struggle against oversight by the US Securities and Exchange Commission: an ex- Coinbase worker who was convicted of allegedly engaging in insider trading. This, according to a recent report by the WSJ. Ishan Wahi,… Read More

March 11, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James continued her efforts to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency platforms by filing a lawsuit against KuCoin for allegedly failing to register “as a securities and commodities broker-dealer and falsely representing itself as an exchange.” The Office of the Attorney… Read More

February 13, 2023 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As more of the crypto ecosystem adopts proof of stake over the more energy-intensive proof of work protocol, crypto users around the world are “being introduced to the benefits of ‘staking,” according to an update from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase,… Read More

February 13, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital securities exchange broker and custodian, announced a partnership with ScribeStar, the digital capital markets documentation and compliance platform, in order “to create a fully digital issuance and admissions experience for companies accessing the Archax markets.” Archax’s institutional-grade, regulated exchange and… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Lending market is large — “with more than $2.7 trillion in assets on loan as of 2021 and revenue of $5.45 billion, an increase of 19% year over year,” according to an update shared with CI. Its major function of “facilitating lending and… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a digital asset securities firm, and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), a global private markets investment firm, announced a partnership “to expand investor access to Hamilton Lane’s funds through tokenization.” Through this partnership, qualified U.S.-based investors will be “able to more easily access three distinct… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance.US supports “responsible” regulation of digital assets by state and federal officials and is “committed to transparency and consumer education,” explains the world’s largest crypto exchange. The statement arrived as the entire industry reviewed claims by the SEC that Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) had listed digital asset… 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

January 31, 2022 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini says that they’re pleased to confirm that Gemini Galactic Markets (Gemini Galactic), an affiliate of the Gemini Trust Company, has received approval from FINRA to serve as a broker-dealer registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has officially… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic, the financial services firm offering a full-stack investment crowdfunding platform, has introduced “Republic Music,”  which is described as a new type of investment product that aims to provide an innovative way to create, produce and share royalties acquired from music. The initiative has been… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 10:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  tZERO, a blockchain-focused subsidiary of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK), announced on Thursday it has teamed up with has signed an agreement with EnergyFunders, an energy projects funding platform, to digitize approximately $25 million of equity interest in EnergyFunders’ Yield Fund I, which is considered the company’s largest fund… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 6:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  iSTOX, a Singapore-based private capital platform, announced on Thursday it has rebranded to ADDX as it enters its next growth stage. As previously reported, ADDX describes itself as a future-ready capital markets platform that is set up usher in a new era for capital fundraising… Read More

May 14, 2021 @ 11:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Sharegain, a UK-based fintech, announced earlier this week it has launched BetterLend. According to Sharegain, BetterLend allows clients to deliver social and environmental change through their securities lending actives. “Through BetterLend, Sharegain clients are using their lending activity to create positive change across four… Read More

April 3, 2021 @ 7:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cass Sanford, an Associate General Counsel who supports regulatory and policy-making initiatives at OTC Markets Group, notes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) amendments to Rule 15c2-11 may eliminate public quoting in securities of issuers that don’t make current information “publicly available.” Sanford,… Read More

October 23, 2020 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vault12, a U.S.based personal digital asset security platform, announced on Thursday the launch of its Digital Inheritance offering. Vault12 claims that Digital Inheritance is the first solution suitable for all kinds of assets to offer a direct and secure way to ensure digital assets can… Read More

May 19, 2020 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investors are reportedly looking to recover funds they had invested in EOS tokens, which they did through the record-breaking $4.1 billion initial coin offering (ICO) conducted by Block.one, the Cayman Islands-registered software developer that created EOS, one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications… Read More

May 15, 2019 @ 4:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockstream, a Canada-based blockchain technology and financial cryptography company, announced on Wednesday the launch of its new Liquid Securities Platform, which is described as a bitcoin sidechain that supports the creation of new digital assets in addition to the ability to peg-in bitcoin to the… Read More

February 5, 2019 @ 1:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

SharesPost, a private company liquidity solutions and private capital markets research provider, announced on Tuesday CityBlock Capital is set to conduct its initial digital security token sale on its platform. SharesPost also reported it was selected by CityBlock to provide secondary liquidity for its tokens as… Read More