Swiss Distributed Ledger technology (DLT) bill Since 2017, efforts have been underway in various jurisdictions such as Liechtenstein, Germany, France, Japan, Singapore and, of course, Switzerland to encourage the further development and legal embedding of DLT-based assets, while also limiting the associated risks. In contrast to Liechtenstein, Switzerland has not created a new law on […]
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 […]
