SBI Holdings, Inc., a leading Japanese financial group based in Tokyo, has joined forces with Startale Group Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based blockchain infrastructure company, to create a joint venture to develop an onchain trading platform. The new project aims to tokenize stock and real-world assets (RWA) that could be traded with international accessibility.
The partnership is established in a two-joint venture business, one of which focuses on core technology development and the other on brand and business expansion strategies. The milestone-based funding has been raised to facilitate disciplined growth and implementations, aiming to launch the platform into the business phase.
SBI and Startale to Offer Trading and Institutional-Grade Compliance
The exchange will be built to offer 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks, including U.S. and Japanese equities, where traditional markets are restricted. It will target offering near-real-time cross-border payments, lowering the market cost of transactions, and facilitating fractional ownership, which will widen access to retail investors.
The system will combine trading functions with tokenized stocks and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to generate new programmable financial instruments. The infrastructure will include institutional-level custody services and real-time compliance capabilities that will ensure international regulatory standards and global interoperability.
Addressing Market Gaps and Industry Outlook
The partnership will overcome shortcomings of current tokenized stock offerings, which are usually limited by the times of the day or jurisdictions when they are available. In comparison, this new platform will be a 24/7 tokenized global financial assets market. The SBI Holdings corporate ecosystem and Startale blockchain expertise position the joint venture to offer an institutional/retail scalable, compliant solution.
The executives of both companies emphasized the general process of transforming financial markets, as RWAs take steps onchain. The transfer is viewed as one towards the digitalization of capital markets, where exchanges will eventually become purely blockchain-based.
