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SEC unveils five-year exemption for tokenized stock trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a blanket five-year exemption for listing and trading tokenized securities - digital tokens that represent a stock and can be traded on a blockchain similar to a cryptocurrency - without registering as an exchange. The regulator is also offering liquidity providers in tokenized stocks a five-year exemption from dealer ​registration requirements. Platforms would be required to notify companies before listing tokenized versions of their stocks, and would be ⁠prohibited from offering those products if the issuer objects, an SEC official said. “The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a significant step forward, within its statutory authority, to bring America’s capital markets into the digital age by facilitating onchain trading of certain tokenized stocks through the ‘Innovation Exemption,’” SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said.

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Germany wants EU action against China to protect carmakers

German finance minister Lars Klingbeil has called on the European Union to combat China's "unfair trade practices" to protect the struggling German car industry. Following a visit to Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg, Klingbeil said: "We cannot when all is said and done be naive in our dealings with China . . . We need a clear signal at a European level." He said Germany would push for "concrete measures" from Brussels. "I am in favour of us standing up to unfair trade practices," Klingbeil said. "Germany needs to have greater self-confidence and adopt a different, more robust approach toward countries that threaten our industry."

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