Over the last few months, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against a few different companies that sold security tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). Since the ICO tokens were not registered or unregistered offerings, the companies violated section 5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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DTC, or Depository Trust Company, founded in 1973, is the largest depository globally with over thirty-five trillion dollars worth of securities on deposit. It operates a securities settlement system and provides services, including depository and book-entry services. Other services also include dividend and interest payments, t
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTC) recently proposed Rule SR-DTC-2015-012 regarding CUSIP eligibility that went into effect on January 1st, 2016. The proposed rule allows DTC to charge issuers a $1,000 fee when required to make a new CUSIP DTC eligible after completion of a corporate action. A CUSIP is similar t