Start-up investments are illiquid and lack exit opportunities for retail investors. Swiss-based start-up Arcton is solving this by launching the first public market for start-up shares. Arcton is a crowd-investing platform with a liquid secondary market where retail investors can trade anytime. They leverage blockchain technology within the newly created Swiss legal framework (DLT Act) for security tokens to […]
A new tokenisation platform to support and accelerate the growth of digital assets HSBC announces that it will launch HSBC Orion – its new proprietary tokenisation platform that financial institutions and corporates will be able to use to issue digital bonds based on distributed ledger technology. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is currently exploring the […]
SWIFT has successfully shown that tokenised assets can move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure – a major milestone towards enabling their smooth integration into the international financial ecosystem. The findings solve the significant challenge of interoperability in cross-border transactions by bridging between different distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks and existing payment systems, allowing digital currencies and […]
