Leading tokenization platform Securitize has further stepped up its efforts to offer tokenized stocks to U.S. investors, appointing a former PayPal executive as its new general counsel.
Securitize on Tuesday announced the appointment of Jerome Roche, a former PayPal executive who led the company’s expansion into digital asset projects, including the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin.
Securitize also said its tokenized securities are already available to US investors, challenging the idea that most issuers prefer to offer such products overseas due to access to local equity.
“While there has been a perception that tokenized securities must primarily be offered outside the United States, our experience shows the opposite is true,” Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize, told Cointelegraph.
‘Clear regulatory path’ for US tokenized stocks
According to Securitize, operating a real-world asset (RWA) tokenization service within the regulatory boundaries of the United States is “not only possible with institutional quality, but also scalable.”
“We have proven that there is a clear regulatory path for issuers to natively tokenize assets for US investors,” Domingo said.
“These are real securities on-chain, not synthetic representations or derivatives,” the CEO said, adding:
“We operate with an SEC-regulated infrastructure, including registered transfer agent broker-dealers and fund administrators, which allows U.S. investors to access and legally hold tokenized securities in a fully compliant framework.”
Securitize’s optimistic outlook on U.S. tokenization comes days after the platform received regulatory approval to operate as an investment company and trading and payment system in the European Union (EU) on November 26. The approval makes it one of the first operators of regulated digital securities infrastructure in both the US and the EU, the company said.
Source: Securitization
“For the first time, modern ledger technology gives us the ability to record ownership, settle transactions, and move value in ways fundamentally better than the fragmented systems we inherited,” Roche, Securitize’s newly appointed general counsel, said in the announcement.
“Innovation only works when it falls neatly within the guardrails of applicable laws,” he added, highlighting Securitize’s push for regulated tokenized securities globally.
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The Securitize news is another sign that the US is open to tokenization. On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission discontinued its investigation into Ondo Finance, a competing tokenization platform.
Ondo said the decision marks a new chapter for tokenized securities in the U.S., with tokenized securities poised to become “the core of capital markets.”
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