Tagged: security token offering

April 17, 2019 @ 5:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitbond announced the first BaFin approved security token in February. The digital asset, BB1, is a debt based offering with a targeted return of 8% per annum which includes a 4% coupon and a participation percentage (60%) baked into the crypto. BBI was issued with… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Announced last fall with much fanfare, Harbor’s security token offering for a real estate project in South Carolina has collapsed. According to a report in Crain’s, Harbor spokesperson Kevin Young has publicly stated “the Hub at Columbia REIT has been canceled.” The Hub referenced a… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

ReitBZ, part of BTG Pactual, has announced that it has hit its USD $3 million “soft cap” goal. ReitBZ has set a hard cap of USD $15 million. ReitBZ is a security token offering based on real estate assets. More specifically, distressed real estate assets… Read More

April 15, 2019 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has collaborated on the first securities based on blockchain technology. The LSE is one of the largest regulated exchanges in the world and the second largest by volume operating in Europe (Euronext is first). A report in the Telegraph said… Read More

April 15, 2019 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Online investment platform Republic revealed last week that Note, a security token which may be issued under the Reg A+ exemption, has already granted 1.8 Note tokens.  The Note tokens concept was first revealed in March when it was reported that Republic had acquired RenGen… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved forward on clarifying their position regarding digital assets. First, a No-Action Letter (NAL) was released pertaining to the issuance of a token by TurnKey Jet. In a tightly defined issuance, Turnkey was deemed not to be… Read More

April 6, 2019 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Republic has kicked off the forthcoming distribution of the digital token “Note.” The issuance of the digital asset was foreshadowed by Republic’s acquisition of RenGen Labs, a private equity platform that has operated in the initial coin offering-security token offering sector of… Read More

March 21, 2019 @ 1:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Announced during the Security Token Summit in Bermuda this week, tribeOS said its “digital security offering” FIRE has received regulatory approval under Bermuda’s young ICO Act (2018). tribeOS is described as a blockchain-based digital advertising marketplace designed to help advertisers and publishers run secure, fraud-free… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 2:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Verseon (AIM: VERS), a California based clinical stage pharma company, is issuing preferred shares. The company is using its own blockchain based subsidiary BlockRules to sell the securities in a security token offering (STO) that seeks to be “one of the first global offerings backed… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitbond, an online lending platform, has launched one of Germany’s first Security Token Offerings (STO). The Bitbond STO has published a BaFin approved Prospectus in conjunction with the offering representing an important step in the validation of the emerging digital asset ecosystem. The Bitbond STO… Read More

March 14, 2019 @ 12:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tokenise, a UK based security token offering platform which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, has announced the issuance of their first STO – KABN.  The company is a Gibraltar based financial service platform that is developing a suite of financial service products. These… Read More

March 1, 2019 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Securrency and Vertalo have signed an agreement to tokenize $260 million in fixed income-generating real estate assets. The new agreement was shared in a blog post yesterday but Securrency and Vertalo announced their partnership in 2018. Vertalo is a digital asset management platform that provides… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Banco BTG Pactual, an investment bank based in Sao Paolo, Brazil, is going crypto. More specifically, the bank is issuing a security token based on real estate assets. BTG Pactual is no small operation. In fact, total assets are pegged at over R$270 billion (USD $70+… Read More

February 18, 2019 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Bafin, Germany’s securities regulator, has given the green light to Bitbond to issue digital bonds. Bitbond is an online lending platform that operates globally. In business since 2013, Bitbond provides access to capital for small businesses. The Fintech boasts a peer to peer lending network… Read More

February 16, 2019 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, TokenMarket, a “Global investment platform” announced its intent to raise up to £10 million in a security token offering (STO). Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the forthcoming STO is the fact that TokenMarket will be issuing the securities under the watchful eye of the UK Financial Conduct… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 9:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The initial coin offering (ICO) industry has morphed into the security token offering (STO) industry. This sector shift is due largely to the recognition, alongside the many regulatory enforcement actions, that have compelled digital assets to become compliant within existing securities law. For all intents… Read More

February 11, 2019 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

PhunCoin is a security token being issued by a subsidiary of Phunware (NASDAQ: PHUN). Beyond being a publicly traded security (December 2018), Phunware is an interesting company. Phunware is described as a “fully integrated enterprise software platform for mobile that provides companies the products, solutions,… Read More

January 26, 2019 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), began trading its very own security token on Friday. Long anticipated, the event was foreshadowed earlier in the week when Overstock founder and Blockchain advocate Patrick Byrne said he was “ready to hit the button” and turn tZero on…. Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 5:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a security token offering platform, completed its first issuance of digital securities in their parent company, Fifth Force GmbH, company last month. The purchased tokens will be minted for shareholders on February 12, if everything goes as planned. The equity token raised an equivalent of €3… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Verseon (AIM: VSN), a company that provides a “computer-driven approach to drug discovery” says it is trying to change the capital markets landscape by bringing regulatory certainty to the blockchain with the goal of connecting a global investor community with innovative companies in biotech and more. Last… Read More