More than 20 companies expect to tokenize securities on the Tezos blockchain, representing some $200 million in deals, through a new partnership with fintech merchant bank DealBox and software provider Vertalo. Announced Monday, the partnership will see Vertalo tokenize 22 different securities issued by DealBox’s clients, providing data management services and providing liquidity, Vertalo CEO and co-founder Dave Hendricks said….
The new coronavirus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December, has infected more than 200,000 people in at least 173 countries and territories globally, according to the World Health Organization. Major institutions and banks have cut their forecasts for the global economy, with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development being one of the latest to…
Mar 16, 2020 (Market News Bizz via Comtex) — Startups seeking financing often turn to venture capital (VC) firms. These firms can provide capital; strategic assistance; introductions to potential customers, partners, and employees; and much more. The year 2019 saw many changes in the startup ecosystem. While many new startups emerged, a few became unicorns. Successful entrepreneurs are able to…
Bitcoin is more than electronic money. It’s more than technology. It’s digital egalitarianism. Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is/was/, the creator of Bitcoin made it clear that releasing Bitcoin into the wild was financial activism. The institutional malfeasance that brought about the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 was the case in point for the Bitcoin thesis. As activism, Satoshi didn’t organize a…
Security token maven and CEO of DealBox Thomas Carter was recently invited to China by Chengdu Global Partners where he met with top business leaders from China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan to formalize a plan to establish a DealBox base of operations for the Asia region. The ambitious project includes establishing a $100M blockchain/fintech fund designed to spearhead initiatives for…
George Gilder and Thomas Carter — Leading the Charge in the 4th Industrial Revolution An entirely new asset class has recently emerged. Known as smart securities, digital securities or security tokens. The post-ICO, regulatory compliant approach to blockchain-based venture fundraising is poised to unlock trillions of dollars of capital market value. At the forefront of the smart securities and blockchain…
If 2017 was the year of the ICO then 2020 will be the year of the STO (Security Token Offering) and the tipping point for widespread adoption of blockchain technology. The catalyst for this adoption is the current digital insurgency in the sphere of traditional finance funded by massive institutional capital inflows and refactoring of money transmission architecture by way…
In a recent interview, Thomas Carter discussed how Digital Names can drastically improve the usability of digital asset transactions. He says the developing startup will do to digital assets what DNS did to the internet in the 1990s. Digital Names Explained Thomas Carter is the CEO of DealBox, a security token issuance and investment platform. Carter is also the brainchild behind Digital Names,…
As financial technology and digital assets evolve there’s always going to be things that work and things that don’t. If the distributed ledger technology would fulfill its potential and reach mass adoption, then major trillion-dollar industries would be completely changed. 2019 will be a transition year on the way to a regulated market of tokenized assets. Security tokens are at…
Data security, privacy & individual sovereignty on the current version of the internet is broken. Identities and private information are being hacked and stolen at an alarmingly exponential rate. Bank fraud losses are in the hundreds of billions a year. New data privacy laws are raising the stakes for enterprises who run afoul of best practices. As the problem increases…
