On March 29, Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, or SMTB launched the country’s first ‘a-1’ rated security token in collaboration with Securitize. The token implies with Japan’s country’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The security token is one of the first product to comply with the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA) in the Japanese Market. The token happened to receive an “a-1 rating” from Rating and Investment Information, Inc. The rating indicate

Securitize, a digital securities issuance platform has announced a new tool that assures that secondary market transaction of digital securities are compliant with regulations. On April 22, Securitize wrote a blog post highlighting that the platform uses smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain while streamlining the creation of compliant peer-to-peer transactions by investors in private securities. CEO Carlos Domingo tweeted with a link on how to use Securitze’s instant ac

Spencer Dinwiddie of NBA’s Brooklyn Nets will launch his tokenized security offering in collaboration with digital securities company Securitize. The tokenized security offering will launch on Jan. 13. after reportedly settling terms with the NBA. The Spencer Dinwiddie bond launches January 13th. I’ll also be taking 8 fans to ASW with me. #NBAVote pic.twitter.com/dhXKt0qPqh — Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) January 10, 2020 Securitize also showed its support of Dinwiddie,

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is leading a 22 member research consortium to develop standards around security token management. MUFG is one of Japan’s largest financial group and the fifth-largest bank in the world by assets. The Security Token Research Consortium group includes brokers, dealers, security issuers, with technology companies such as NTT Docomo Inc. and KDDI Corp, the two largest telecommunications companies in Japan. Securitize is the only issuance platform pr