This is a guest opinion post from Jean-Marc Stenger, CEO of Societe Generale – FORGE.
2021 has been characterised by a strong acceleration of clients adopting blockchain technology in capital markets through digital native securities. Over the past few years, many of our clients have closely followed our activities in digital securities, whether that be our first structured product issued as a Security Token or our EIB digital bond issuance.
Yet in 2021, we saw clients shift from being interested observers to more active participants who are very keen to enter this field. In the last four months Societe Generale – FORGE has organised close to twenty secondary market transactions in different securities, up from just two in 2020, and we are seeing similar growth on the issuance side, where our pipeline for 2022 is now tenfold that of 2021.
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