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Clearstream Gains CSSF Control-Agent Authorization for Tokenized Fund Shares
Clearstream received CSSF authorization to act as a Control Agent for tokenized fund-share issuance under Luxembourg's Blockchain Law IV.
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Clearstream said on October 28 that Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier authorized it to act as a Control Agent under Blockchain Law IV. The role lets Clearstream oversee tokenized issuance by maintaining the central issuance account on a distributed ledger, tracking holdings across account keepers and reconciling issued volume with recorded positions.
The planned service is designed for selected share classes within existing UCITS or alternative-investment-fund umbrella structures. Transfer agents, fund administrators, custodians and depositaries can retain their current roles while Clearstream supplies the DLT issuance and control layer.
Clearstream describes a permissioned environment supporting subscriptions, transfers and redemptions after validated instructions, with whitelisting intended to restrict holdings to authorized securities accounts. The authorization is a regulatory milestone, not evidence that the full platform is already operational: Clearstream states that its integrated Control Agent service remains subject to completion of CSSF regulatory processes.
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- //Luxembourg's CSSF authorized Clearstream to act as a Control Agent under Blockchain Law IV.
- //Asset managers will be able to tokenize selected share classes inside existing UCITS or AIF umbrella structures while retaining established service providers.
- //Clearstream says the integrated permissioned-DLT service remains subject to completion of CSSF regulatory processes.
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