Digital Securities
SIX Acquires Stake in daura – SDX Exchange
In preparation for the launch of the highly-anticipated SDX exchange, SIX announced the successful acquisition of a stake in the duara platform. Daura is a token issuance and registry platform which has seen considerable success over the last year. Now, SIX and its team of collaborators seek to utilize duara's proprietary software to further the SDX exchange's capabilities.
A Strategic Advantage – SDX Exchange
As part of SIX's SDX strategy, the firm partnered with Swisscom, Sygnum Bank, Custodigit and daura. The company intends to utilize the best protocols from each platform in the creation of the SDX exchange. Together, SIX's team seeks to create a complete security token ecosystem. Here investors and businesses can plan, issue, trade, and manage their security tokens from one easy to understand interface.
Discussing the groups' strategy, Johannes Höhener, daura chairman and Head of fintech at Swisscom spoke on the importance of the joint development work. Höhener pointed out the team's other tasks. These tasks include helping to create a new standardizing for the tokenization of Swiss assets. She also touched on the company's plans to expand into operating private blockchains as part of the overall strategy.
Additionally, Peter Schnürer, CEO of daura took a moment to speak on the benefits and security gained from both investors and companies. He explained some of these benefits including the increased transaction speeds. Typically, traditional securities can take days to settle. The SDX system will allow real-time trading and settlement. Impressively, the platform will be able to tokenize assets in just hours.
Players in the SDX Exchange Project
SIX managed to put together an experienced team of blockchain firms to bring the SDX exchange to life. For example, Sygnum Bank continues to make headlines regarding its September launch date as the world’s first digital asset bank. Also, Deutsche Bourse saw heavy publicity this year after it completed a successful proof of concept of its securities trading ledger. These tests proved many of the advantages obtained when settling securities transactions using distributed ledger technology. Notably, the technology can also tokenize and exchange equity and cash tokens
Daura – SDX Exchange
Duara is an advanced digital share register. The firm also specializes in the issuance of security tokens. In the duara ecosystem, one Tokenized share equates to one newly created share. The reduced costs and added speed simplifies the entire share issuance process. Duara enable enables SMEs to sell stakes in their businesses while reducing the costs of crowdfunding campaigns significantly.
SIX Makes Moves
SIX appears to be ready to take the next steps towards the development of the SDX exchange. The firm's acquisition of duara shares proves that the company is ready and willing to take all the necessary actions to ensure the success of SDX. Consequently, you can expect to see a lot of hype surrounding the launch of this highly-anticipated platform in the coming months.
