A potentially first crypto investors protection legislation and standards initiated by Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) in Canada, could be a solid guidance for foreign financial regulators, crypto exchanges and blockchain-based financial platforms to reach the better protection of investors from scam securities and coins.
Talking about Equity Crowdfunding and Security Tokens
by William |October 22, 2018 |0 Comments | BlogsInterview with Ulyana Shtybel – VP of HighCastle
1. Which problem is HighCastle trying to solve?
The rise of the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) has shown that the traditional exchanges and crowdfunding are unable to cover the demand from SMEs amongst new early-stage issuers and global investors. In fact, the crowdfunding market is undeveloped – less than 5% of alternative finance in the world belongs to equity-based crowdfunding with 95% of activity taking place at p2p lending platforms an annual turnover of $ 145 bn. The reason for such an uneven split is due to the absence of a secondary market for crowdfunded equity. Both p2p lending and the ICO market do have a secondary market with a moderate level of liquidity. read more
How to win in token madness
by William |August 29, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | Alternative, finance, ICO, investments, STO, TokenWhile financial services have largely been trapped in the Jurassic period, technology brings the future onto the horizon driven by thousands of futurists and tech evangelists. They already live in a free, decentralised individual-based cyber world and each day open small doors to bring us in. In the next few years, financial services will rapidly transform as tech rewrite the rules. What should we look for in the next period? Better terms? Improved customer experience? I think what we really need to keep our eye on is the digitalised securities arena. It becomes an available investable asset class for the very first time and brings with it the promise of enormous potential. Let’s have a look at the trends!
New ICO Voting Feature Now Available at HighCastle Marketplace
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |July 10, 2018 |3 Comments | Blogs | AIMS, blockchain, Exchange, TokenHighCastle provides to issuers and investors a unique Marketplace where private securities and alternative investments are aggregated and structured to facilitate their selection from the numerous choices obtainable through our search engine.
HighCastle`s API sources investment opportunities from crowdfunding platforms, investment firms and trusted channels, providing investors with cross-platform portfolio management.
How AIMS Token Empowers The HighCastle Ecosystem?
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |June 1, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | AIMS, blockchain, STOIf you happen to own a bunch of AIMS tokens, luck is surely on your side now. An AIMS Token is a voucher, which HighCastle accepts at its market value, and those AIMS users who earlier got their tokens at a discount will enjoy an even better gain overall whilst using the HighCastle platform.
AIMS Token Listed at XSTAR Exchange
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |May 25, 2018 |2 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, crypto, Exchange, HighCastle, STO, Token, XSTARHighCastle’s AIMS Token is listed on XSTAR Exchange. XSTAR provides institutions and individuals options to trade a variety of digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more. XSTAR is legally compliant with laws and regulations in all countries in which it operates. Details with listing announcement on XSTAR is available here.
HighCastle Weekly Market Insights
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |May 25, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, HighCastle, ICO, TokenLatest Market Review by HighCastle:
A new shift at blockchain arena. HSBC Holdings Plc completed a transaction using blockchain which it said shows the technology is commercially viable for trade finance. Read the full article here.
JP Morgan Tests Blockchain’s Capital Markets Potential. Read the full article here.
Next Block Conference Highlights
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |May 21, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs, Blogs special | blockchain, nextblock, offering, security, TokenProbably one of the best blockchain events was held in Kyiv last Friday. The Next Block Conference has brought together bitcoin enthusiasts and blockchain experts from the capital market and finance.
The whole day of wonderful impressions with top world crypto influencers Bobby Lee, BTCC Co-founder, Bitcoin Foundation Board Member; Simon Cocking, Editor in Chief at CryptoCoinNews, Senior Editor at Irish Tech News; Steward Rogers, Analyst-at-large, VentureBeat.
HighCastle Weekly Market Insights
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |May 15, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, HighCastle, STOPowered by Big Data and Distributed Ledger Technology, HighCastle already provides access to over 10 000 projects with a combined value in excess of £4 bn. Investors can use HighCastle for a search of global investment opportunities.
DDEX Exchange Listing Announcement
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |April 23, 2018 |1 Comments | Blogs | AIMS, blockchain, crypto, DDEX, Exchange, HighCastle, ICO, Listing, Token, TradingHighCastle is proud to announce its AIMS Token first official listing on DDEX. DDEX is a digital asset exchange serving global traders. Building on top of Ethereum smart contracts and the 0x protocol, DDEX allows users to trade ERC-20 tokens from wallet to wallet. No possibility of theft. No uncertainty of deposit/withdrawal lockup periods. We are confident they are the right partner to launch our tokens in the global market.
Why Tokenized Securities Could Be The Next Blockchain Trend To Change The Capital Market?
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |April 12, 2018 |1 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, capital markets, crowdfunding, HighCastle, ICO, securities, STO, TokenThere are about 2000 new ICOs launched each month. Approximately only 3% of these will get financed. Many crypto contributors are beginning to consider alternatives to coins as the liquidity of those is decreasing as the number of ICOs are increasing.
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The Ontario Securities Commission is focusing on investor protection issues arising from cryptocurrency and blockchain-related developments.
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |April 2, 2018 |6 Comments | Blogs, Blogs special | AIMS, blockchain, crypto, HighCastle, regulation8 Reasons Why HighCastle is a Game Changing Investment Platform
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |March 30, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | AIMS, alternative investments, blockchain, capital, crowdfunding, fintech, HighCastle, investment platform, SmartnoteHighCastle is a British blockchain-based investment marketplace for private securities and other alternative investments, where investors can discover and build a portfolio of the best property loans and bonds, startup equity and tokens, government bonds and other alternative investments worldwide.
HighCastle is an investment marketplace, designed to tokenize worldwide private securities and alternative investments with the use of HighCastle’s SmartNotes to be regulated under the FCA legal framework.
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HighCastle is initiating FCA authorisation process
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |March 28, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, compliance, fintechA deep, comprehensive and intensive process of research and development during the last two years has lead us from the idea of securities tokenization in 2016 to the HighCastle platform in place with the primary investment market and our proprietary API to ensure open-architecture of our business model.
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Ugo Bechis, Adviser at HighCastle and a Co-Chair at Lafferty Brexit Council:
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |March 26, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs special | blockchain, fintech, HighCastle“The HighCastle DLT Infrastructure already designed to be in line with the U.S. Department of Commerce NISTIR “Blockchain Technology” document published on 24 January; the alignment with the U.S. technical and security guidelines ensures the HighCastle platform soundness and scalability”
Philip Walsh, a senior compliance professional with 15 years experience in FCA Compliance, has joined HighCastle as Regulatory Compliance Director
by Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle |March 26, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | alternative investments, blockchain, compliance, finance, fintech, HighCastle, ROI, UKMr. Philip Walsh, an experienced compliance professional offering clients regulatory advice with a particular focus on start-ups operating within the investment business sector and, in particular, stockbroking, asset management (including AIFMs and CPMIs) and investment banking firms, has joined HighCastle, the world’s biggest investment marketplace based in the UK as its Regulatory Compliance Director.
HighCastle Private Token Sale has concluded!
by Konstantin |February 27, 2018 |2 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, finance, HighCastle, ICOWe are extremely humbled by your support and we would like to extend our gratitude to each of you for your trust in building the HighCastle investment marketplace, which is designed to tokenize private securities and alternative investments with the use of HighCastle’s SmartNotes under the legal framework of the U.K. Financial conduct authority.
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Philip Millar appointed Executive Director at HighCastle
by Konstantin |February 20, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | alternative investments, finance, fintech, TokenMr. Philip Millar, former Executive Director, CME Asia and Head of Global Clearing Services of HSBC Singapore and Hong Kong has joined HighCastle, the world’s biggest investment marketplace based in the UK as its Executive Director.
read moreWhy choose HighCastle Marketplace?
by HighCastle |February 19, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | finance, InvestingHighCastle is the world’s biggest investment marketplace that provides access to 6242 projects with combined 3.3 billion in value and its growing every day.
With HighCastle as your partner, you profit from a broad range of high-quality capabilities – encompassing access to global markets, state-of-the-art technology, and open product architecture.
Keeping the UK at the forefront of Fintech
by Konstantin |February 15, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, capital, FCA, finance, UKby Ulyana Shtybel, Co-founder and Vice President at HighCastle
Regulatory framework
The growing number of ICOs, in excess of 2000 per month, highlights the unsatiated demand for financial technology innovations and projects that offer new solutions for existing problems. This keen interest in the ICO model also demonstrates that project founders and investors are looking for simple, fast solutions that will allow them to increase their efficiency and profitability. The current Capital Markets structure does not provide a solution that would offer easily accessible liquidity to private companies.
Ukrainian cybersecurity company RMRF Technology became a security advisor of HighCastle
by HighCastle |February 15, 2018 |2 Comments | Blogs | adviser, blockchain, cybersecurity, investmentUkrainian cybersecurity company RMRF Technology became a security advisor of international alternative investment marketplace HighCastle.
Ukrainian company RMRF Technology, which specializes on providing cybersecurity services and development of deception-based solutions signed an agreement with UK-based HighCastle, the world’s biggest blockchain-based investment marketplace, which already provides access to 6 242 projects with combined 3.3 billion in value.
According to the agreement, RMRF Technology will provide the initial security analysis of the platform, developing recommendations for the platform security improvement and assistance in the implementation of these recommendations.
More “air” is needed for the financial system…
by HighCastle |February 14, 2018 |0 Comments | Blogs, Blogs special | capital, marketExclusive interview of LUDWIK SOBOLEWSKI, Board Member at #HighCastle Group, ExCEO at Warsaw Stock Exchange and Bucharest Stock Exchange explains the future of financial markets – for The FinTech Times by Kate Shcheglova
“I tend to see the future of tokenization of assets as a concept to build up “tiers” of financial instruments. There are clear differences between a representation of assets by means of tokens and classical derivative financial instruments, but in essence, these two constructs resemble one another. Having said that, there is a viable perspective for the new concept and its implementations by different companies, like #HighCastle, which combine DLT with securities-backed notes in one #HighCastle’s SmartNote solution. It is also a signal for the regulators, that more “air” is needed for the system. Capital markets, as we know them today, are definitely over-regulated”. – said LUDWIK SOBOLEWSKI
HighCastle, a British Blockchain-Based Investments Marketplace, Has Started Token Sale on Christmas
by Konstantin |February 14, 2018 |1 Comments | Blogs | AIM, blockchain, ICO, Token
I am glad to announce that HighCastle, the world’s first open-architecture investment platform for private securities and alternative investments, that is managed and operated by the UK-registered HighCastle Group Ltd (company number 10619102), has started the presale of its voucher token.
As the biggest digitalised investment marketplace in the world, and due to its revolutionary idea, HighCastle is now is now recognized by respected investment banking and law professionals as one of the Most Influential FinTech Companies. HighCastle is using an open-architecture technology and enables digitalization and online access to $1.7 trillion market of private securities worldwide.
Begin your week right!
by Mariia Maksymtsiv |March 27, 2017 |1 Comments | Blogs | finance, InvestingBeginning of the week should be exiting and spent in a good company. HighCastle offers it’s company to make your week enjoyable.
Let’s begin!
First of all make sure you’re in a cozy and homly atmosphere to begin our journey. For today HighCastle prepared three updated core activities called “stand-ups” :
Investing in Frontier and Emerging markets: Ukraine
by Konstantin |February 13, 2017 |0 Comments | Blogs | emerging, FDI, frontier, ROI, UkraineInvesting in frontier and emerging markets attracts worldwide investors by its higher Return on Investments. HighCastle’s broad knowledge of these dynamic markets and our approach to the risk management when selecting the projects to our Platform in partnership with our Authorized Advisers, helping Investors to choose between qualitative businesses and diversify effectively.
BUILDING A NEW ERA OF INVESTING
by Mariia Maksymtsiv |January 31, 2017 |0 Comments | Blogs | equity, investmentsread more
Debt-Based Crowdfunding is the Favorite Among Leading Platforms
by Mariia Maksymtsiv |December 27, 2016 |1 Comments | Blogs | business, equity, HighCastle, lending
European Investment Bank
by HighCastle |December 26, 2016 |2 Comments | Blogs, Blogs special | bank, finance, investments, lending, supportWhat is the EU’s bank?
The EIB is the European Union’s bank. This bank is owned by and representing the interests of the European Union Member States. It works closely with other EU institutions to implement EU policy.
A major player
As the largest multilateral borrower and lender by volume, they provide finance and expertise for sound and sustainable investment projects which contribute to furthering EU policy objectives. More than 90% read more
Grants for starting a business
by Mariia Maksymtsiv |December 23, 2016 |1 Comments | Blogs | business, grant, investment, start-up, UK grantsWe’ve prepared a overview some useful grants to apply for.
Accelerating Commercialisation Grants offer ventures up to 50% of expenditure on a project, which is capped at $250,000 for commercialisation offices and eligible partner entities, and $1 million for other applicants. read more
Hunting for AI
by Mariia Maksymtsiv |December 22, 2016 |0 Comments | BlogsDeloitte Global predicts that by the end-2016 more than 80 of the world’s 100 largest enterprise software companies by revenues will have integrated cognitive technologies into their products
Basing on the Deloitte TMT Predictions it is expected that the cognitive technologies that will be the most important in the enterprise software market will be: machine learning, natural language processing and speech recognize read more
BREAKING DOWN ‘Blockchain’
by Mariia Maksymtsiv |December 13, 2016 |1 Comments | Blogs | blockchain, business, HighCastle, industry, network, transactions, walletsIntroduction to Blockchain. A block is the ‘current’ part of a blockchain which records some or all of the recent transactions, and once completed goes into the blockchain as permanent database.