Franklin Templeton is seeking a U.S. SEC exemption, and plans to enable tokenized funds to trade via blockchain liquidity pools.

Franklin Templeton held discussions with staff from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Cryptocurrency Task Force yesterday on regulatory issues for tokenized fund transactions, exploring whether regulatory exemptions can be secured to allow tokenized money market funds and ETFs to trade on blockchain trading platforms and liquidity pools.

Discussion topics include: whether investors can exchange tokenized money market fund shares for tokenized stocks or ETFs via trading pairs;

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