ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has published a report on the distributed ledger technologies applied to securities market.
The report released on February 7, 2017, states that ESMA wants to understand both the benefits and the risks that distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and digital currencies may introduce to securities markets, and how it maps to existing EU regulation.
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