Regulations
By James Thorp
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What Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald Are Actually Building. Securitize brings the blockchain infrastructure and, critically, the regulatory compliance layer.
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The Regulatory Hurdles Still Ahead. The framework isn't live yet. It'll need to go through rigorous testing and get the necessary…
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Wall Street just got a blockchain upgrade. Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald have announced a collaboration to build a regulated, blockchain-based pathway for initial public…
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The deal is pretty significant. For years, tokenization in finance has meant taking already-existing assets — real estate, private credit, fund shares — and wrapping them in a…
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No timeline yet. The companies haven't said when the first tokenized IPO might actually happen.
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Together, they're building a platform where companies can issue shares in a secure, blockchain-based format, with the whole process — issuance, settlement, record-keeping —…
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The efficiency argument is real. Traditional IPOs are slow, expensive, and loaded with intermediaries.
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Regulatory compliance is front and center for both firms. That's not an accident — it's basically the whole pitch.
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The framework isn't live yet. It'll need to go through rigorous testing and get the necessary approvals from financial regulators before any company can actually use it to go…
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Broader context matters here. Capital markets regulators have been cautious about tokenized securities, but the mood has shifted somewhat.
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Cantor Fitzgerald's market presence is probably the underrated part of this partnership. Blockchain startups have tried to crack institutional capital markets before and mostly…
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The access question is also worth watching. One of the stated goals is broadening the investor pool — reaching a more diverse range of participants than traditional IPOs…
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Smart contracts automating parts of the process could reduce the time it takes companies to go public. That's a real pain point.
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