The Tokenisation of Assets’ Implications for Financial Markets

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We’ve seen some interesting deals in the local market that are pointing to the increased usage of distributed ledger technology in financial markets.

Late last year the JSE acquired Globacap, a UK fintech company whose unique distributed ledger technology allows digital registrar services to be reflected in real-time.

The JSE will collaborate with Globacap to establish a private placements platform to advance and digitise capital raising for infrastructure finance and SMEs.

The tokenization process marks a promising solution in converting rights to an asset into a unique digital representation - a token.

To talk about the increased use of block-chain and tokenisation as a strategy to promote access to capital Michael Avery is joined by Renergen CEO Stefano Marani; Earle Loxton, CEO of EasyCrypto and Charles Savage, CEO of the Purple Group
25 Oct 2021 8AM English South Africa Business · Business News

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