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Société Générale continues its crypto and blockchain experimentation by issuing a tokenized security on the Tezos network, the Cointelegraph reported. European financial behemoth Société Générale has issued a security token on the Tezos blockchain. According to an announcement on Thursday, the move constitutes the first tokenized asset offered by Société Générale. The bank stated that […]
Hong Kong’s securities regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued official guidance on security token offerings (STOs), in a statement published on March 28. The guidance aims to clarify the legal and regulatory requirements for parties engaging in STO-related activities, the CoinTelegraph says. The document opens with a proposed working definition of a security token and […]
As the CoinDesk reported on March 8, the German Ministry of Finance has recommended that the country recognize blockchain-based securities as a legitimate form of financial instrument and regulate them as such. In a paper published Friday, the agency said securities can be issued in electronic form and shouldn’t have to be documented on paper. “German law […]
Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday. Sign up here. With so much buzz around tokenized securities, compounded by strong progress from […]
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s de-facto central bank, believes that no tokens it has seen need to be regulated under its securities laws, the CoinDesk reported on September 19. During a fireside chat at CoinDesk’s Consensus Singapore 2018 conference on Wednesday, Damien Pang, head of the MAS technology infrastructure office for fintech […]