TL:DR Breakdown: Standard Chartered said its crypto custody business with the Northern Trust would launch next year. The custody platform will debut in London, targeting institutional investors with popularly-traded cryptos. The multinational British financial services company, Standard Chartered has officially made it known that it was...
On the 18th of November, Securitize, a US-based digital securities issuance platform, won the Token Issuance Award at the Tokenized Assets & Digital Securities Awards 2020 (TADS). Jamie Finn, the co-founder and president of Securitize shares some insights on the company in this interview: What does this award...
Flov technologies AG (flovtec) is a Swiss technology company providing fully automated algorithms to facilitate liquidity in digital asset management. The Co-founder and CEO Anton Golub talks about the present and future of the industry in this interview. What kind of a company is flovtec? “Flovtec is a...
Galaxy Digital’s bitcoin funds raised $104 million in their first year, mostly from wealthy investors eager to benefit from the surging cryptocurrency. As reported in two Form D filings, Galaxy Institutional Bitcoin Fund LP raised $55.1 million while its smaller sibling, Galaxy Bitcoin Fund LP, raised $3.6 million. Both...
According to a new report from the Financial Times, Facebook's Libra project will be launched in January of 2021. it will be a stablecoin backed by the US dollar. The report cites three people working on Libra project who state that the Libra Association will...
Securitize an industry leading primary issuance and compliance platform for digital securities (security tokens) and an SEC-registered transfer agent, has received regulatory approval to acquire Distributed Technology Markets, LLC, ("DTM") a FINRA registered broker-dealer with an alternative trading system (ATS) on file with the SEC. The...
The Swiss National Bank, The Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub (BISIH) Swiss Centre, and SIX Digital Exchange have published the Helvetia report, a two proofs-of-concepts experiment using “near-live” systems to settle digital assets on a distributed ledger with central bank money. The initiative demonstrated the feasibility and...
What is a Security/Asset Token? A Security, on one hand can be defined as a “fungible, negotiable financial instrument holding some form of monetary value,” i.e., an investment product backed by a real-world asset such as a company or property. On the other hand, a security token can simply...
【營業資訊】全球首個資產通證化和數字證券領域的行業年度國際獎項——Tokenized Assets & Digitized Securities Awards數字證券大獎(下稱TADS大獎)，早前於香港舉行全球啟動儀式和頒獎典禮，並於2020年11月18日的香港區塊鏈周期間，以在線方式向全球直播。TADS大獎對推動全球數字證券行業發展作出重大貢獻和卓越成就的人士或團體進行表彰，並成為本行業全球進程的重要節點。 高爾街集團創始人兼行政總裁、TADS大獎組委會主席李尚信表示，「數字資產是塑造金融服務業新領域的最具變革性的力量之一，期待在全球範圍內擴大合作夥伴關係和生態體系，將TADS大獎發展成為數字證券和數字資產行業最受認可的獎項之一。 」 香港創新及科技局副局長鍾偉強在TADS大獎開幕致詞中指，「高興見到全球首個通證化資產與數字證券領域的國際獎項在香港成功舉辦，其長遠願景是將TADS大獎打造成行業內的傑出獎項之一。 」 金融資產的資產通證化(Asset Tokenization)，即與基礎資產掛鈎(如股票、商品、固定資產、權益、債務等)，以數字證券模式定價的一對一發行特定通證，亦稱為「證券通證」(Security Token)。通過使用區塊鏈技術助力資產通證化，能實現持分所有權從而釋放流動性，不僅增加了透明度從而解決資產確權問題，同時亦提供了可追溯性從而減少隨意加槓桿帶來的風險。 作為金融衍生產品，需要達到合規和合法標準。香港證監會於今年8月發出首個「虛擬資產自動交易及經紀牌照」的原則上批准通知書，香港政府財經事務及庫務局亦在11月發布了《有關香港加強打擊洗錢及恐怖分子資金籌集規管的立法建議公眾諮詢》，推進對建立虛擬資產服務提供者發牌制度進行公眾諮詢。反映香港政府對建立明確制度積極及正面，有助促進行業的長遠發展。 有關TADS大獎 / 塔安斯大獎的更多資訊：https://tadsawards.org 觀看「TADS大獎 Gala 2020 頒獎典禮」 - https://tadsawards.org/winners/#stream For more information: https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/finance/20201208/bkn-20201208073004937-1208_00842_001.html...
TADS Awards (stands for “Tokenized Assets & Digitized Securities Awards”) is the world’s first annual international award for the asset tokenization and digital securities sectors. Hosted annually, TADS Awards gathers individuals and businesses to share the energy that tokenization brings to the financial markets around...