Securitize, which tokenizes funds for asset managers including BlackRock, Apollo and KKR, said on 15 Jul it had agreed with Cantor Fitzgerald to offer public companies a route to raise equity onchain.
Securitize Signs Cantor for Onchain IPOs Weeks After Its SPAC Listing
16 July 2026 - 15:50 CEST
By Stu Clelland
Under the agreement, Cantor, the New York investment bank, will contribute its equity capital markets and trading capabilities, and Securitize will provide the infrastructure to issue, distribute and service tokenized securities, using Securitize Markets, its SEC-registered broker-dealer, according to the statement. It doesn't name a first client, a timeline or the blockchain that would be used.
Two weeks earlier
Securitize completed its stock market listing on 1 Jul through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, a shell company sponsored by Cantor EP Holdings II, according to a filing made on 8 Jul. The sponsor holds registration rights over Securitize stock and is party to lock-up agreements.
The 15 Jul release describes Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. as "a premier global investment bank" and doesn't refer to the merger. Sandmark put questions to both firms about the relationship between the entities and whether any Cantor entity holds equity in Securitize. Neither responded by publication.
Securitize hasn't filed a current report on the agreement with Cantor. Public companies have four business days to disclose a material definitive agreement, a window that hasn't closed.
Two accounts of the same product
The firms describe the arrangement differently. Pascal Bandelier, Cantor's co-chief executive and global head of equities, said the partnership brings "the rigor of traditional equity capital markets to onchain settlement and distribution." While Carlos Domingo, Securitize's co-founder and chief executive, said it supports capital formation onchain and changes how securities are issued, distributed, owned and serviced.
Settlement and distribution govern how a trade completes. Issuance and ownership govern the register, the legal record of who holds what. The statement doesn't specify whether a token would be the security itself or represent a share issued conventionally.
