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Liquidshare which is building blockchain infrastructure for SME shares announced it’s partnering with ConsenSys’
PegaSys. Liquidshare is backed by Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Euronext and Euroclear amongst others.
The French startup is creating a private permissioned blockchain platform to enable post-trade settlement of sales of listed and unlisted SME shares between peer-to-peer custodian nodes. At the end of 2018, LiquidShare ran a pilot with 15 financial institutions.
“We have very stringent requirements in terms of performance, privacy and security as we are building a regulated entity operating a private blockchain to register and settle in the private and public markets,” said LiquidShare CEO Thibaud de Maintenant. “PegaSys’ blockchain offering will help us achieve scalability and finality in this stringent regulatory environment.”
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