The new exchange
Lightning Stock Exchange
First unified market infrastructure in Europe for natively tokenised equities
Mission
Reconnecting savers with the real economy
We believe that capital markets are essential to bridging the gap between available savings and financing needs.
Households have capital to invest; companies need funding to grow. Yet the two rarely meet. A modern, accessible, and transparent market infrastructure is the prerequisite for this connection to happen — and for savings to genuinely finance the productive economy.
Vision
Rethinking the stock exchange. The era of the Unified Market
Technology is a powerful driver of change. Stock exchanges have always evolved to meet their times — and today, that evolution points toward the Unified Market: a seamless, frictionless flow across the entire security lifecycle.
Operating under the European regulatory framework, Lise has build a unified infrastructure where technological innovation finally delivers real capital efficiency — positioning France at the forefront of this new generation of markets.
TokenisationThe new market standard
Tokenisation means representing a financial asset — a share, a bond — as a digital security on a DLT (blockchain) infrastructure, while preserving the same legal rights.
From the public square to the "Beurs12th – 16th century
In Bruges, at the Van der Beurse family house, commerce found a dedicated home: trust moved out of the fairs and into a permanent marketplace.
The Modern "Share"1602
The Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam created the tradeable ownership stake — the "share." Ownership became liquid, and the secondary market was born
Digital breakthrough1971
Birth of NASDAQ, the first electronic stock exchange, and the dematerialisation of paper certificates. In France, the famous "Corbeille" trading floor at the Palais Brongniart closed for good in 1987.
Fragmentation & algorithmicFrom 2000
The internet and high-frequency trading accelerate flows and scatter liquidity across servers and platforms.
The era of the Unified MarketToday
Lise reunifies fragmented functions into a native DLT and tokenised flow, ushering in a new generation of market infrastructure.
What we do
The Stock exchange, end to end
Lise bridges two worlds that were once separate: trading and post-trade. For the first time, a single interface lets you manage the entire lifecycle of a security — from its issuance on the market to day-to-day shareholder management.
Issuance & Trading
— A regulated equity market operating as a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF)
— Securities trading between buyers and sellers through an order book
— A market that never sleeps: open around the clock, 24/7
Settlement system & CSD
Instant DvP
Real-time registry management
Post-trade services
— Settlement and delivery of securities upon order execution, in instant T+0 (vs. traditional T+2)
— No counterparty risk, no need for central clearing houses
— Settlement in commercial bank money
— Recording on a distributed ledger (DLT), ensuring native reconciliation of securities custody and real-time registry transparency
— Listed companies have real-time access to their full shareholder registry
— Dividend distribution managed directly on the platform
— General meeting notices and convocations
— Electronic voting for shareholders
— Market disclosure and transparency: company announcements, regulatory information, listed company updates
Corporate actions & governance
— Licensed by the ACPR in France, with regulatory review by the AMF, Banque de France, ACPR, ESMA, and the ECB
— Unified architecture designed under the European DLT Pilot Regime (Regulation 2022/858) for DLT market infrastructures
— MiFID II and CSDR compliant
— Strict AML/CFT and MAR enforcement
Regulated & Supervised
Technology
An on-chain market
DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology, or blockchain) is the foundation of our infrastructure
Tokenisation
Full dematerialisation of securities to optimise trading and registry traceability
Atomic settlement
Simultaneous transfer of securities (shares) and cash (euros) in a single operation, eliminating settlement failure and all counterparty risk
Permissioned DLT
Lise uses a Hyperledger Besu blockchain. Access to registry data and node validation is strictly limited to Lise and regulatory authorities.
Our shareholders
At the heart of the financial ecosystem
Lise draws on the expertise of leading institutional partners to build tomorrow's market infrastructure.
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