Citigroup Launches Tokenized Pre-IPO Shares on Blockchain
Tokenized depositary receipts bring pre-IPO giants onto bank-balance-sheet rails — the first major Wall Street issuer to wrap private equity in a compliant on-chain wrapper at this scale.
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Tokenized depositary receipts bring pre-IPO giants onto bank-balance-sheet rails — the first major Wall Street issuer to wrap private equity in a compliant on-chain wrapper at this scale.
Citigroup, the $2.78 trillion asset manager, is set to launch tokenized securities representing stakes in private…
Citigroup enters RWA tokenization at the institutional end of the market — targeting private-company depositary receipts for foreign investors first, with public-company access on the roadmap.
Citigroup is preparing to offer tokenized shares of private companies to its wealthy and institutional clients…
A top Wall Street bank's base case puts tokenized real-world assets on a path to grow roughly 320x in five years, with stablecoin issuers alone soaking up $1T of U.S. Treasury demand.
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The product adapts a 100-year-old instrument for blockchain rails and debuts with a Citi Ventures-backed tokenization firm — the structural step is moving private equity onto institutional balance…
The same CUSIP, ticker, and order book — tokenized shares would clear through DTC on a T+1 basis, putting Wall Street's deepest liquidity pool behind on-chain rails.
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