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LATOKEN BEF USA 2019: Liquidity for US Startups and VCs in Asia, Middle East and Europe
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Blockchain Economic Forum in the US gathered 600+ VC partners, lawyers, tech entrepreneurs, and crypto experts. The 7-day event has been held in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, and have proven LATOKEN to be the leading security offering expert.

“The US security token market will be a sleeping giant for a while as there are many challenges for liquidity such as lockups”, said LATOKEN CEO Valentin Preobrazhenskiy during BEF USA opening. “Furthermore most of the accredited investors in the US have already access to the US VC stage equity. These means less interest and liquidity for equity tokens. Low liquidity means weak incentives for startups and investors to enter the security token markets”.

“The situation outside the US is different”, explains CEO of LATOKEN. “Investors in Asia, Middle East, and Europe have little access to the US VC backed startups while facing less regulation. This is why liquidity for US security tokens will start outside the US. And this is our focus to structure Initial Exchange Offerings outside the US for american startups and VCs”.

Security token offerings (STOs) and the US financial regulator position concerning this issue was one of the key topics at BEF USA. LATOKEN with 12 security tokens listed on the exchange have huge experience in the field. Most heated discussion on the topic was during ‘Securities and Crypto Markets Regulation’ panel in New York part of BEF....
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Bitcoin Garden: LATOKEN schedules BEF USA to link VC funds with top crypto startups
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Three cities in the USA: Los Angeles (1-3 May), San Francisco (6-8 May) and New York (9-10 May) are chosen to host the next Blockchain Economic Forum by LATOKEN. It is already the 5th BEF, previously it has been held in Davos (2019), San Francisco (2018), Singapore (2018) and New York (2017). 

Internationally well-recognized people, multi-billion dollar VC funds, top fintech founders and CEOs visit Blockchain Economic Forum regularly to discuss the transition of capital markets and payment systems to the blockchain. Vicente Fox (former President of Mexico), Rosen Plevneliev (former President of Bulgaria), Eva Kalli (member of European Parliament), Tim Draper ($5bln crypto investor), Nouriel Roubini (NYU professor), Joe Oliver (former Minister of Finance of Canada), Laura Tyson (Director of the US President’s National Economic Council), Gary Gensler (CFTC Chairman under President Obama) and many others used to be speakers on BEF.

This time LATOKEN BEF USA 2019 adds the discussions on Initial Exchange Offerings, secondary markets for Startups, Private Equity, and VC funds....

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LATOKEN Blockchain Economic Forum | 1-10 May 2019 | US Road-show


Event Website: https://bef.latoken.com/usa2019

US Road-show: Los Angeles (May 1-3) - San Francisco (May 6-8) - New York (May 9-10)

LATOKEN BEF USA 2019 gathers VC funds and institutional traders to discuss transition of capital markets to blockchain. There will be special focus on Initial Exchange Offerings, and secondary markets for Startups, Private Equity and VC funds.

Who is attending:

- Top economists focused on monetary policy.
- Minister and parliament member-level politicians.
- Founders of investment funds (100+Bn AUM in the room).
- Top foundations focused on Sustainable Development Goals.
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