Security Tokens


Policy

Why Security Token Offerings Are a Big Yawn in Parts of Asia

Security token offerings were supposed to be the next big blockchain-based investment vehicle. But investors in Thailand and Taiwan aren't so interested.

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Finance

TokenSoft Launches Wallet Allowing Investors to Self-Manage Security Tokens

The U.S.-regulated security token platform says its new wallet product makes managing tokens easier for less tech-savvy investors.

Tokensoft CEO Mason Borda

Finance

3 More Execs Leave Swiss Stock Exchange's $100M Blockchain Project

Three executives have left SDX, the blockchain-based venue for digital asset trading owned by Swiss stock exchange operator SIX Group, since the year began, including two founding team members.

SIX Swiss Exchange is based in Zurich.

Tech

Polymath Moves Security Token Platform Off Ethereum and Onto Parity's Substrate

As part of the transition, Parity has agreed to build certain business-logic features on Polymesh’s base layer.

Trevor Koverko and Charles Hoskinson (right) at CoinDesk Construct 2019 (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Security Token Platform iSTOX Lands Another Big Asian Backer

Japanese financial services group Tokai Tokyo is the latest large Asian financial institution to back tokenized securities platform iSTOX.

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Markets

BnkToTheFuture CEO: 50 Percent of Funding Will Be Through Security Tokens in 2020

BnkToTheFuture invested in a SEC-registered broker dealer to enable U.S. investors participate in security token offerings.

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Markets

Leading Japanese Firms Partner on Security Token Research

MUFG launched a 22-member research consortium of security issuers, broker dealers and tech companies to set standards for security token management.

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Markets

Six Major Japanese Brokerages Form Security Token Offering Association

A self-regulatory organization has been formed in Japan to guide security token offerings.

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Markets

Spencer Dinwiddie Could Decentralize Pro Sports – If Accredited Investors Want In

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie aims to raise $13.5 million by tokenizing part of his NBA contract. Will investors take the shot?

Spencer Dinwiddie image via Erik Drost / Wikimedia Commons

Markets

WATCH: The State of Security Tokens in Asia

"[Companies] think that its going to be a solution to magically raise them a bunch of money and get a bunch of liquidity," Dalma Capital's Zachary Cefaratti said at Invest: Asia.

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