Baltasaar goes banking: we are now fully MiFID II-regulated and enable direct public placements for our security issuers

(BERLIN and MUNICH, 04/23/20)

CM-Equity, a leading financial services provider focused on placements and capital market services for institutional investors, fund managers, high net-worth individuals and family offices, and Baltasaar today announced the launch of its Digital Assets platform. CM-Equity as a financial institution is fully MiFID II regulated and acts as liability umbrella (Haftungsdach), enabling Baltasaar to publicly offer the platform to its clients.

“Baltasaar – powered by CM-Equity” now provides its clients with global corporate finance in one integrated solution. The Digital Assets platform enables one-stop digital structuring, issuance, placement and underwriting of securities with a few clicks. Traditional costs incurred by an issuing bank, a central securities depository and other intermediaries are eliminated. The customer subsequently issues a BaFin-compliant security and conducts a uniform, public placement to investors in 31 EEA countries.

Demand for the issuance of digital securities has increased rapidly over the past two years among both institutional and private investors. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Germany opened up to digital securities early on and has taken a pioneering role within the European Union in approving blockchain-based securities. The growing use of digital securities in public securities offerings was explained in detail at BaFinTech 2019 in Bonn, among other events.

A fully digitalized issuing process eliminates many of the cost points that were previously incurred when paying the issuing banks and the law firms involved. In addition to cost savings, issuers benefit from faster processing, more efficient administration and the ability to address private and institutional investors in the shortest possible time. This is made possible by the technological mapping of the financial instrument via a token and the automated transaction processing by means of blockchain-based smart contracts.

“Baltasaar – powered by CM-Equity”

It is a merger of two companies with extensive experience in different areas of the financial world. The partnership seeks to combine strengths and create synergies.

CM-Equity as a regulated financial institution and liability umbrella enables the platform to publicly market capital market measures of companies throughout the EEA.

The technology solution allows the investor to make his investment directly online undergoing legally required procedures such as KYC and AML, provides a banking interface, the entire token management, automated repayments and a secondary market. The secondary market is accessible to customers even without a regulated financial centre, such as a stock exchange, through an OTC (over-the-counter) module. The issuer thus receives a liquid financial instrument that can be traded on the secondary market.

Customers of the platform receive a uniform structuring, technological implementation and distribution of the securities offering. “Together with CM-Equity we are leading the financial markets into the 21st century”, explains Christian Heinz, CEO of Baltasaar.

“We are pleased that we are enabling companies to take simple, legally compliant capital market measures and democratizing access to financial markets for institutional and private investors alike,” Heinz states further.

“Our Digital Assets platform provides our clients with the necessary infrastructure to raise the capital in the most efficient, transparent and direct way. Our platform functions as One-Stop-Partner for the issuers as well as its investors. Through our regulatory compliant finance solution we create new standards within  Financial Markets Advisory and Corporate Finance of the future,” says Michael Kott, Managing Director of CM-Equity.

For more information about the Digital Assets Platform and “Baltasaar – powered by CM-Equity“ please visit baltasaar.com.

About Baltasaar:

Baltasaar is a digital assets platform that enables companies to easily structure financial instruments, issue them in a legally compliant manner and market them publicly. With a single prospectus, companies have uniform access to 31 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) to raise capital, attract investments and finance projects.

A large number of financial instruments can be tokenised, for example bonds, promissory notes or participation rights. Investors and issuers can issue and trade the instrument without intermediaries. No third parties are required for the safekeeping, accounting and transmission of the instrument. The issuing can be executed at a fraction of the usual cost and with just a few clicks.

About CM-Equity:

CM-Equity AG is an independent and owner-managed financial services institution based in Munich. Founded in 2002, the company offers its customers tailor-made financial services in the areas of Digital Assets & Financing, Direct-Placements, Secondary Market and Alternative Investment Fonds.

The Asset Management division specialises in active portfolio management strategies as well as in providing asset management services to institutional clients and high net worth individuals with crypto-currencies. Customer proximity, transparency and sustainability are at the heart of the corporate philosophy.

Come join us at AIBC Summit Manila!

We are excited to announce that we will be attending AIBC Summit Manila. More than 10,000 delegates from all around the world will gather on June 8th and 9th in Manila’s SMX Convention Centre to discuss the future of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology.

Among the top-notch speakers and experts will be our CEO & Founder Christian Heinz. In his keynote speech, he is going to introduce the concept of Funding-as-a-Service, show how the blockchain can be used to simplify the securitization of assets and revolutionize project financing. Learn how Baltasaar can help you to issue digital securities online directly on your website.

Joining a high-profile panel discussion, Christian will share his insights and the European perspective on the future of tokenized securities and project financing.

We from Baltasaar are thrilled to be a part of this amazing and unique event. Especially exciting is the opportunity to engage with thought leaders and innovative start-ups from East and West to discuss the possible intersections and use cases of AI and Blockchain.

We are convinced that these two groundbreaking technologies can join forces to realize significant efficiency gains, streamline business processes, disrupt entire industries and create completely new business models.

About AIBC Summit

The AIBC Summit is a unique landmark event that seeks to highlight the enormous potential of AI and Blockchain to realize innovative and disruptive business ideas. 3 successful AIBC Summits have been held in Malta, now the event celebrates its first event in Asia. It will bring together more than 10.000 delegates, 400 exhibitors and over 1000 investors from East and West.

The Summit is also accompanied by numerous networking dinners and global satellite events being held in Asia, Europe and Northern America.

Come meet us in person!

If you want to arrange a personal meeting with our CEO Christian Heinz during one of the two event days, please send us an e-mail at . Looking forward to seeing you there! 

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Going Glocal: global presence & local sourcing 

The Steinbeis University SIBE program was created to provide successful MBA graduates with unique opportunities worldwide to develop new business opportunities and expand rapidly growing companies. With 800 active students and 4,800 MBA graduates in the past 25 years, SIBE is one of the leading MBA-programs in Germany.

Baltasaar is pleased to announce the strategic cooperation with the Steinbeis University SIBE program and to report on the successful recruitment of first employees on site at the Steinbeis Business Center in Nanjing.

China is one of the fastest growing markets in the world and is the third largest economic power in the world. We are therefore already successfully cooperating with Chinese partners and are now preparing to enter the Baltasaar market in 2021.

The Baltasaar financing solution is adapted to local regulatory, legal and tax requirements. Baltasaar establishes a technological infrastructure to make portfolio and foreign direct investments (FDI) within a legally secure framework with just one solution. We are happy to be part of the Steinbeis partner network!

The SIBE program

The program was launched 25 years ago. In addition to professionally integrated study with project work in a partner company full-time and thus unique knowledge transfer & systematic competence building between science and economy, companies bind successful MBAs to themselves at an early stage and gain access to a pool of highly trained employees who are the key and the foundation for a successful career in the company bring.

The number of companies is 5.6 million in the US, 27.5 million in the EU and 34.7 million in China. With Baltasaar technology, we are ready to give all Chinese companies faster, transparent and efficient access to national and international financial markets and investments.

Would you like to learn more? Contact us!

Blockchain in real estate

Fibree was founded in 2018 with the aim of establishing blockchain technology in the real estate industry.on Achim Jedelsky from the Fibree Regional Chair Berlin invited Baltasaar’s Christian Heinz to give a lecture on blockchain-based financing in the real estate sector. The most important highlights.

The project financing of existing properties and development projects is experiencing a new dynamic through digitalization. The issue of a digital security opens up new financing options for real estate projects. 

A special project company, a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), is usually founded to develop real estate projects. To this end, the entrepreneur founds the company and holds the company shares. Investors can now participate in the long-term success of a project through sales or rental through the SPV.

The company issues the digital financial instrument in the form of a security token, which securely certifies the participation rights and obligations. Investors invest in the digital instrument and receive the shares in return. The added value takes place by the project company developing, renting and selling real estate.

By digitizing an asset on the blockchain, the asset becomes free and can be transferred to other buyers at any time.

Fibree’s mission

Founded in Amsterdam on July 9, 2018, Fibree started with the goal of bringing real estate professionals and blockchain specialists from around the world together to share expertise. In a world that is increasingly influenced by technology, real estate processes also have to change. Blockchain technology is just one, but crucial building block of these changes. The possible effects of the blockchain are viewed as an infrastructure component (trust carrier) and thus as a “business model enabler”. At the same time, there is still great uncertainty about the real added value and applicability in real estate processes.

Experiments are increasingly being carried out worldwide with the possibilities of using blockchain for real estate. By bringing together the expertise of pioneers in this field and the exchange of knowledge already gained, FIBREE will make an important contribution to the introduction and implementation of this technology in the real estate market in the coming years.

FIBREE’s mission is to create healthy and realistic expectations that enable the real estate market to discover and use the true potential of blockchain technology step by step.

Would you like to learn more? Contact us!