ChainCatcher news, Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, stated on social media that Schwab plans to extend retail stock and ETF trading hours to five days a week, 24 hours a day. Geraci noted that this initiative shows traditional finance is gradually moving towards the trading model of decentralized finance (DeFi), which may lead to full securities tokenization in the long run.Geraci further pointed out that, although there are opinions suggesting that investors should not be allowed to trade at any time, the new generation of investors values accessibility to trading more than arbitrary restrictions set based on personal opinions.

ChainCatcher news, the security tokenization infrastructure company Ownera announced the participation of U.S. Bancorp in its Series A financing. Developed based on the open-source FinP2P protocol, Ownera provides services for regulated financial institutions aimed at connecting all public chains, consortium chains, and any type of asset tokenization platform off-chain.ChainCatcher previously reported that Ownera announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing in September 2022, with investors including JPMorgan Chase. (Source link)