Federally chartered crypto financial institution Anchorage Digital has acquired the Securitize For Advisors (SFA) enterprise unit from Securitize, bringing in-house a crypto wealth administration platform constructed for registered funding advisors (RIAs), the corporate mentioned in a press launch Monday.
Monetary particulars of the acquisition weren’t disclosed.
The acquisition formalizes an current relationship between the 2 corporations. Anchorage Digital Financial institution already custodies 99% of Securitize For Advisors consumer property, and SFA has been working on prime of Anchorage’s infrastructure.
“RIAs are driving one of the vital vital waves of crypto adoption. By bringing collectively Anchorage Digital’s federally regulated custody platform with SFA’s expertise and experience, we’re constructing the premier resolution for wealth managers and their purchasers,” Anchorage Digital co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley mentioned within the launch.
The transaction underscores the corporations’ current partnership and offers Anchorage Digital a extra outlined function in wealth administration, including a unified platform that brings collectively buying and selling, custody and client-facing instruments for advisors whereas permitting Securitize to focus on its tokenization enterprise.
Tokenization is the method of turning real-world property corresponding to shares, bonds, actual property, non-public fairness and artwork into digital tokens recorded on a blockchain.
Carlos Domingo, co-founder and CEO of Securitize, said that the transfer is meant to allow Securitize to give attention to its core tokenization enterprise whereas offering SFA with extra devoted sources underneath Anchorage.
The deal is Anchorage Digital’s second acquisition of 2025, following its buy of stablecoin issuer Mountain Protocol in Might.
SFA, launched in 2021, permits RIAs to supply digital asset publicity to purchasers. Over the previous 12 months, the platform’s web new deposits and property underneath administration have elevated by greater than 4,500%, in accordance with the businesses, in contrast with a 16% growth charge for the RIA business as a complete.
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