The world’s leading issuer of crypto ETPs, 21Shares AG, is launching the 21Shares Bitcoin ETP on the regulated market of Deutsche Börse on July 2, 2020. 21Shares AG – headquartered in Zug, Switzerland – has listed the world’s first crypto basket (HODL) on the SIX Swiss Exchange in November 2018. Since Zug became the global […]
The ETC Group intends to bring the first crypto-currency Exchange Traded Product (ETP) to the Xetra platform via the white label platform HANetf. The Bitcoin Exchange Traded Product (ETP) with the symbol (BTCE) is scheduled to be launched on Xetra later this month, after it has been approved by the German Financial Supervisory Authority BaFin. […]
A recently published study analyzed the relevance of crypto-currencies among German stock corporations. According to the study, crypto’s such as Bitcoin have so far been of secondary importance for the corporations. The study examined the adaptation of crypto currencies among listed German companies. The authors Lars Andraschko and Bernd Britzelmaier from the Business School Pforzheim […]
Among other things, blockchain is ideally suited for the tokenization of assets. This can typically include illiquid assets such as real estate. An STO (security token offering) has just been launched in Germany for a real estate project in Berlin. The Berlin real estate STO is being conducted by Black Manta Capital Partners, a German […]
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, better known as BMW, has announced that the company has successfully tested a platform called “PartChain”. According to the announcement, the test was already completed in 2019. Pilot project has already been successfully tested at several locations PartChain will use blockchain as well as cloud technologies from Amazon Web Services and […]
German companies Edeka, Lidl, Henkel, SAP, Lufthansa and several other large companies are planning a joint blockchain project for the exchange of load carriers. Well-known companies are working on blockchain projects This was announced by the German branch of the standardization organization GS1. The companies involved in the project, all of which have a turnover […]
The German financial supervisory authority Bafin has already received more than 40 expressions of interest from banks that would like to obtain a licence for the crypto-custody business in future. Due to the new money laundering law, banks are no longer restricted to simply offering and safekeeping of classical securities such as shares or bonds, […]
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Germany is currently clarifying how the newly defined law can be applied to companies regarding the safekeeping of crypto-currencies. Companies that would be affected are one’s subject to foreign jurisdictions but serve the German market. In a guideline published in January, the regulatory authority announced that companies that […]
