Securitize Capital has recieved its Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) license from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday. The platform is the digital asset management subsidiary of Securitize, a regulated real-world asset tokenization platform which recently went public on the NYSE.
The RIA approval will allow Securitize Capital to operate and scale tokenized funds valued above $100 million and remove previous growth caps. For the Miami, Florida-based company the milestone has unlocked access to institutional capital.
The platform will also let bigger investors tap fiduciary standards, legal protections, and enterprise scale services to adopt tokenized assets through its platform.
“We will be subject to a full compliance program and fiduciary duties to our investors, providing more confidence in our products,” said Carlos Domingo, the founder and CEO of Securitize.
Securitize Capital will now operate under comprehensive SEC compliance standards and assume formal fiduciary duties to its investors. Moving forward, the platform will under SEC’s comprehensive compliance standards.
This heightened level of regulatory oversight, the company stated, is expected to strengthen its investor protection provisions across its tokenized real-world asset (RWA) products which spans cash-equivalent money market funds, private credit, private equity, and structured finance.
“In light of the recent comments from Commissioner Pierce that vault curators might be acting as investment advisers under certain circumstances, so we will be able to provide regulatory coverage for RWAs-based vaults that interact with DeFi lending protocols,” Domingo noted.
As of July 1, the valuation of the tokenized market stood at $60 billion. A recent report by BeInCrypto said it has tracked over 7,000 tokenized products across 12 asset classes.
As tokenization of physical assets like gold and real estate picks pace, institutions are looking to work with platforms following clear regulatory frameworks under the federal securities laws.
This is where Securitize Capital wishes to see an expansion in its clientile with the RIA license.
It is, however, notable that while more financial platforms including Wall Street giants like BNY Mellon, JPMorgan, and Citi are exploring tokenized products and services, these assets are still struggling to keep up the market momentum.
In its report, BeInCrypto said, “of the 1,289 surveyed tokenized assets above $100,000 in value, 910 of them, representing $32.9 billion, showed zero weekly transfer activity.”
Analysts have argued that the shortage of access to tokenized assets is what’s leaving presently tokenized assets in a bottleneck. The BeInCrypto report quoted EtherFuse CEO David Taylor describing the market situation like, “a $60 billion market that 97% of people can’t touch, where half the assets never move, isn’t a market yet. It’s a waiting room.”
Financial heavyweights like BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, and Apollo have been tapping platforms like Securitize to bring real-world funds on-chain. The broader aim is to unlock 24/7 liquidity, fractional ownership, and faster settlement. Recently, Cantor Fitzgerald partnered Securitize to tokenize IPOs.
