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Paxos Trust Co., a blockchain company that caters to financial institutions, has been given the green light to settle stock trades in near real-time in a direct threat to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s half-century equity market dominance.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission granted the company permission today to begin a small-scale program with at least two broker dealers to use blockchain technology to transfer shares and money once the trades are complete, Paxos said in a statement Monday.