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What the PEB’s new report means for market participants

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Central message is that UCC’s Article 8 contains legal machinery needed to integrate digital tokens into securities settlements.

Can existing US commercial law accommodate the use of blockchain-based or other digital tokens to transfer securities? To address this increasingly important question for digital asset and securities markets, the Permanent Editorial Board (PEB) for the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has issued a report.

The PEB’s answer is largely yes.

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