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1️⃣ 💎 Tokenized Diamonds: Expobank’s Offering

2️⃣ 🏦 HSBC Updates: Custody and Tokenized Gold

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💎 Tokenized Diamonds: Expobank’s Offering

We’ve seen quite a few interesting tokenized offerings from whiskey and rum to The Pearl to bitcoin mining. And now we have diamonds!

Financial institution Expobank claims to have issued the first tokenized diamond offering in Russia. Each token, locally known as a Digital Financial Asset (DFA), represents 1/5,000th of a diamond, creating a much lower minimum investment amount for people to be able to participate.

What are the terms?
Let’s dive in.

A 3-carat diamond has a value of 9M rubles ($97,500 USD). Divided into 5,000 pieces gives us $19.50/token which are only available to qualified investors up until December 27, 2023.

The repayment date is in November 26, 2026, calculated by a series of methods:

• Plan A: a designated calculator on a diamond-rating website based on size, purity, shape, fluorescence and other attributes.

• Plan B: a diamond price index will be used instead which is also set to launch this month on the Moscow Exchange.

• Plan C: if neither option is available, investors will receive a fixed 12% premium on their investment.

This of course is not investment advice. That being, it’s an interesting asset class to explore which may fit into individual investors’ portfolios. More so if it becomes tradable given the granularity of each token’s size.

This news comes just a month after Moscow Exchange announced plans to issue real estate digital assets in 2024. Although security tokens have been allowed in Russia since 2021, it’s only as of late that we’re hearing news with new offerings and updates/announcements including:

• Sberbank opening its DFA platform to retail investors

• Moscow Exchange receiving the first license for DFA secondary markets

• Their National Settlement Depository (CSD) becoming a licensed DFA issuer

We’ll be keeping an eye on the Russian market as more tokenization news develops. Stay tuned!

🏦 HSBC Updates: Custody and Tokenized Gold

HSBC has been announcing quite a few headlines lately and I wanted to summarize some of them with you considering they range from offerings to infrastructure.

Starting with an offering, HSBC is now joining WisdomTree Prime (WisdomTree’s app), Sberbank and Mitsui in the tokenized commodities space with their announcement of tokenized gold. HSBC tokenized physical gold stored in their London Vault which can trade on their FX and precious metal platform, HSBC Evolve.

Speaking of John O’Neill, he also spearheads their HSBC Orion issuance platform which just announced will start offering custody via Ripple’s Metaco. This custody service is meant for institutional clients and only supports tokenized securities, not crypto, issued on third-party platforms. The bank will start offering this service in 2024, completing its digital asset offering for institutional clients.

This is something we explored on the “Custody of Digital Assets” panel at TokenizeThis - the fact that seamless, low-cost integrations to existing infrastructure will be the key towards all financial institutions getting onboard with tokenization. While some pieces can be created in-house, others can be integrated if they meet that institution’s level of sophistication. Why is this important? The more in common institutions have, the higher the probability of having interoperable systems rather than everyone siloing off into their own ecosystems.

And last but not least: The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) plans to list HSBC Orion-issued tokenized bonds for secondary market trading. This institutional-level news helps put the UAE into a more blockchain-forward and financial spotlight, building on the momentum they have going from past recent announcements such as the tokenization of The Pearl.

We covered the ADX news in this week’s episode of the Security Token Show which also features some special guests, check it out at 10am EST live streamed on our LinkedIn and Twitter, with the recording also available on YouTube!

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