Malta Stock Exchange to Develop Two New Platforms for Security Tokens

The Malta Stock Exchange has separately announced today that MSX, the innovation, digital and fintech arm of the group, will be developing two new platforms for listing and trading security tokens. Neufund is developed in partnership with Binance, and OKMSX in collaboration with Okex.

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Neufund

A subsidiary of the Malta Stock Exchange and Binance, Neufund aims to become an end-to-end primary issuance platform for security tokens, equity tokens in particular. It will allow for secondary trading of equity tokens and enable companies from around the world to raise funds in a legal way while offering liquidity. Seven companies are already slated to conduct an Equity Token Offering (ETO) on the platform: Founders Bank, Brille24, Uniti, Myswooop, Next Big Thing, Blockstate and Emflux Motors. A pilot project is promised later in 2018 which is said to include the public offering of tokenized equity on Neufund’s primary market which may later be tradable on Binance and other crypto exchanges pending regulatory and listing approvals.

“We are thrilled to announce the partnerships with Malta Stock Exchange and Binance, that will ensure high liquidity to equity tokens issued on Neufund. It is the first time in history, that security tokens can be offered and traded in a legally binding way. The upcoming pilot project will allow us to test the market’s reaction and realize the overall project idea in an environment with minimized risk,” commented Zoe Adamovicz, CEO and Co-founder at Neufund.

OKMSX

OKMSX is meant to leverage Okex’s digital asset operations and security expertise, along with the Malta Stock Exchange’s 26-year experience in regulatory compliance and client due diligence. It aims to develop an institutional grade security-tokens trading platform. The two parties say they strive to finalize the joint venture by Q3 2018 and that this new platform will launch by Q1 2019 to service clients globally from Malta.

“Malta is taking the helm of regulating the blockchain technology and cultivating a regulated cryptocurrency and ICO epicentre. This joint venture marks our confidence in the Maltese government as well as our commitment to providing an efficient, secure, and transparent blockchain trading environment to clients worldwide. We believe OKMSX will be a milestone in the economic development of Malta,” said Tim Byun, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Government Relations of Okex.

“Today Malta opened up a way for legally binding listing and trading of tokenized securities. We are proud of Malta Stock Exchange to enter a partnership with a worldwide leader in primary offerings on blockchain such as OKEx. I look forward to the fruitful collaboration in the future,” commented Silvio Schembri, the Maltese minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation.

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