With all of the focus on tokenized securities these days, now is a great time to catch on what you need to know with our latest Timely Takes Podcast. Meredith is joined by Scott Kimpel, who is a partner at Hunton, where he leads the firm’s working group on blockchain and digital assets. The topics covered on this podcast include:

– Plain English definition of key terms

– ‘Issuer-sponsored’ tokenization versus ‘third-party’ tokenization

– What a simple stock trade looks like in an “on-chain” system

– Why Scott expects market intermediaries will continue to play a big role in the securities markets

– How tokenization will facilitate 24/7 trading and atomic settlement (i.e., T+0)

– How tokenization will streamline the proxy voting process

– Recent action by the SEC, DTC, Nasdaq, NYSE and others to facilitate the tokenization of securities

– The risks of transitioning to a new blockchain-based system

As always, if you have insights on a securities law, capital markets or corporate governance issue, trend or development that you would like to share in a podcast, we would love to hear from you. Email Meredith and/or John at mervine@ccrcorp.com or john@thecorporatecounsel.net.

– Dave Lynn