UVAS

Welcome to the fifth Spotlight of our Ashurst FinTech Spotlight series. Over the coming weeks and months we will be covering FinTech companies that were part of our FinTech Legal Labs Cohort in November 2019 and other promising FinTech companies.

We are delighted to introduce UVAS - Securities Exchange as a spotlighted company in this series. If you are interested in suggesting a company to be covered under this series, or are interested in meeting or finding out more about any of the companies we are featuring as part of this series please do not hesitate to contact us.

UVAS - Securities Exchange - about the company

UVAS Exchange offers primary issuance of digital shares & debentures, secondary trading and optimised post-trade, with automatic clearing, settlement and custody.

UVAS strives to remedy the situation of illiquidity and opaqueness in capital markets and serves as a turnkey solution for listing of assets for trading in a tokenised form in a similar way that stocks are listed on exchanges such as NASDAQ or LSE, but with a substantially improved matching engine, and an optimised post trade process.

UVAS offers a full-stack asset tokenisation solution containing everything from KYC to primary placements of assets in a tokenised form, to secondary market trading and portfolio management as well as custody of digital assets. The solution is highly streamlined and automated, and thus substantially cheaper to operate than existing stock exchanges.

Key advantages

• Direct onboarding and KYC of clients and members, issuance, trading, settlement and custody of securities.
• Asset agnostic servicing with possible assets including private REITs, VC funds, real estate debt & equity, equity of SMEs, smaller commodities and other underserved markets.
• Automated solution offers OPEX cost savings of 95%+ compared to other stock exchanges.
• Liquid secondary trading on UVAS connects various fragmented markets into a global marketplace.
• Modular exchange software allows for institutional grade fault tolerance, easy integration with partners and members guaranteeing frictionless operation.
• Software was developed in-house from scratch after thorough analysis of most existing global exchanges, and substantially enhances and optimises existing exchange infrastructure.

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