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Conor Funston

Counsel

Conor Funston is a Counsel in the Global Markets team at Ashurst focusing on fintech and debt capital markets. Email: conor.funston@ashurst.com


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Digital assets use cases in financial securities: are they “native”?

In this article, Ashurst calls for legislative intervention to facilitate a scaled solution enabling the issuance of “native” Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-underpinned financial securities under English law. They draw on the position in French law as an example of how conventional legal frameworks can evolve to accommodate the nuances of digital assets and DLT.

1 NOV 2022