kaal:claim:3936876-007

The paper certificate system failed at scale: trust companies and intermediaries were overwhelmed by changing ownership records, and from 1967 to 1970 a reported $400 million in securities was lost or stolen.

Source quote, verbatim

The trust companies and intermediaries quickly became overwhelmed with changing ownership records, and from 1967 to 1970, a reported $400 million was lost or stolen in securities.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Hayley Howe, Custody of Digital Assets (2021), II.1 Custody Requirements for Traditional Assets, p. 8
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3936876 · source PDF

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Wulf A. Kaal, Hayley Howe, Custody of Digital Assets (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3936876

Holds when

United States securities markets, 1967 to 1970

Classification

failuresupport: evidencedfailure: paperwork crisisfamily: scalability-and-throughput-limitsecurities-lawdefi

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