ICOs: The risks investors need to weigh up

Initial coin offerings let issuers raise money from the public without dealing with regulators and banks. But this latest cryprocurrency trend raises red flags.

Instead of filing papers for an initial public offering with a securities regulator and then selling shares, blockchain companies are raising money selling digital tokens. That’s what Filecoin did in early August when it raised $252 million in just over half an hour.

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