Security Tokens as a Local Investment Option for Individual Investors

Projektbeschreibung:

The research project funded by the DZ BANK Stiftung aims to analyze and evaluate the potential of security tokens in the context of issuing and distributing local securities for private investors. In particular, the project investigates to what extent security tokens could be used as a promising future business model by cooperative banks.

At the current time, individual investors are generally unable to invest in securities issued by smaller, local companies due to the high effort and complexity involved in the issuance process. Blockchain-based security tokens offer an efficient way to securely and comparatively inexpensively represent fine-grained, more specific or local securities. Consequently, their use could unlock market potential to fill investment and financing gaps. The use of security tokens by cooperative banks opens up special opportunities for the establishment of new business areas, since cooperative banks are characterized by a dense branch network and long-standing relationships with local companies and customers.

Within the scope of the research project, the market potential and the needs of customers for local securities investments will be analyzed by means of an interview study. In addition, the requirements for market development and the role of the cooperative bank in the issuance and management of local securities will be analyzed.