The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective the Form S-4 registration statement tied to Securitize’s merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle before the tokenization firm puts the deal to a shareholder vote and lists on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker SECZ.
The declaration of effectiveness, announced June 5, 2026, moves Securitize closer to becoming a publicly traded company and gives investors direct exposure to the infrastructure behind tokenized real-world assets rather than to any single tokenized product. The firm held more than $4 billion in assets under management as of April 2026.
Independent tracker RWA.xyz ranks Securitize first among platforms that distribute tokenized assets onchain, with roughly $4.1 billion across 22 products as of June 1, 2026, ahead of Ondo and Circle. It slips to third only when recordkeeping-layer platforms enter the count, behind Broadridge DLR and Figure, neither of which lets investors transfer tokens onchain. Cantor Equity Partners II is a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald that trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker CEPT. Once the combination closes, the merged entity is expected to operate as Securitize Corp. and trade on the NYSE.
SEC Clears Securitize’s Path To Public Markets
The registration statement was filed by Securitize Holdings, Inc., the post-merger public company, in connection with the business combination announced on October 28, 2025. Effectiveness means the disclosure package has passed regulatory review, allowing the parties to proceed to shareholder approval. The public-company structure could add transparency for institutional counterparties and open access to capital markets as competition among banks, exchanges, custodians and transfer agents intensifies.
Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo tied the clearance to the wider institutional shift, adding that:
“This marks another important milestone for Securitize and for the broader institutional adoption of tokenization. Becoming a public company would position Securitize to continue scaling that infrastructure globally as tokenization increasingly becomes part of mainstream financial markets.”
The clearance arrives against a friendlier regulatory backdrop, with U.S. banking regulators confirming that tokenized securities qualify as financial collateral under existing capital rules.
Shareholder Vote And NYSE Listing Await Securitize
The transaction goes to Cantor Equity Partners II shareholders of record as of May 11, 2026, for approval at a special meeting on June 29, 2026. If shareholders approve and customary conditions are met, the combination is expected to close shortly afterward, with the NYSE listing soon after.
Securitize has expanded since announcing the deal, agreeing a NYSE collaboration on tokenized securities infrastructure, partnering with Computershare on issuer-sponsored tokenized shares, and launching fully onchain regulated trading for tokenized stocks on Solana with Jump Trading and Jupiter. It also continued building tokenized products with asset managers including BlackRock, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck.
The company runs SEC-registered broker-dealer, transfer-agent and alternative trading system entities in the United States and a regulated digital-securities operation in Europe under the EU DLT Pilot Regime, which it says makes it the only firm licensed across both jurisdictions.
