Key Facts

• Cantor Fitzgerald will leverage its equity capital markets and trading capabilities, while Securitize will provide the tokenization infrastructure used to issue, distribute, and service tokenized securities.
• The collaboration will enable public companies to raise capital and issue securities on-chain with improved operational efficiency and modernized ownership records, while still operating within the established capital markets framework of traditional public offerings.
• The partnership advances an issuer-sponsored approach, where the token represents the actual security, and tokenization becomes part of the issuance process rather than something layered on afterward.
• Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize, stated that public companies shouldn't have to choose between access to traditional capital markets and the benefits of blockchain technology that improve how securities are issued, distributed, owned, and serviced.
• Pascal Bandelier, Co-CEO and Global Head of Equities at Cantor, noted that the partnership brings together the capabilities required to support capital formation on-chain within existing regulatory frameworks, giving clients innovative new ways to raise and access capital as markets evolve.