Welcome to FinTech TV.
I'm Remmy Blair.
Securitize started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol SECZ on Thursday, July 2nd.
Now this listing makes Securitize one of the first publicly traded companies focused purely on tokenization.
Joining me here at the New York Stock Exchange is Billy Miller, COO at Securitize.
Billy, great to have you on the show.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you for having me.
Great to see you again.
Well, it is a big day for you as well as securitize.
So tell us about this path to becoming a public company.
It's been a long journey.
So today is just a huge milestone for securitized.
We've been operating for 8 years.
We've been in the tokenization space very early, and we've made a lot of good steps to help bridge the gap between traditional finance and the crypto world.
So to have a moment like today where we can be traded as a public uh publicly traded.
Is a good signal that the rest of the kind of on-chain ecosystem and tokenization companies can also, you know, play in the traditional space as well.
Yeah, and Billy, you are joining us as we head into the second half of 2026, and heading into the first half of this year, the focus was on institutional adoption when it came to digital assets.
So give us your take on what we're seeing in this space, and especially the fact that tokenization is becoming more of a household name.
We are always happy to see tokenization in the news, and we've seen it more and more often.
So obviously, adoption starts with the institutions, the biggest companies in the world that want to test things and run pilot programs, and we always wanted to work with companies that are doing real things on chain.
So institutional has been great.
We're seeing a lot of banks and traditional asset managers launch tokenized products, but I think the next iteration is more retail exposure.
So we're seeing a lot of interest in tokenized equities, tokenized ETFs, more accessible products for, you know, retail investors, not just in the United States, but overseas as well.
Yeah, and speaking of which, and expanding on what you just said, since we are heading into the 2nd half and now that securitize is a public company, what comes next for the organization?
We keep it moving, so we don't intend to, you know, leave the institutional space that is a core function of securitize to work with the largest asset managers, the largest exchange, you know, we work with NIE, we still want to help build traditional infrastructure, but we also want to diversify across other jurisdictions and other asset classes.
So in our last time we spoke, you know, tokenization.
Can be very asset agnostic, which is great, because you can apply this technology to any of the asset classes, whether it's equities or debt or funds.
So I'd like to see, you know, more broad adoption across the street, um, not just for consuming the products, but issuing the products out there.
And what does that actually mean for investors out there?
I mean, we, we take that seriously, so we kind of followed our own path.
So we announced that we would tokenize our own equity, and we wanted to be that, that proof of concept to show other publicly traded issuers that you can tokenize your equity seamlessly and you can provide and utility to these consumers.
So people today buy equities through their brokerage accounts.
They're pretty limited in what they can or can't do with those shares themselves.
What tokenization brings is added utility and self-custody and, and opens new doors for what the average retail investor can do.
From, you know, using shares in DeFi to take a loan against it or trading on chain in a compliant manner.
We wanted to kind of open the doors to, you know, more retail users to let them enjoy their assets how they want to.
Well, Billy, it was great having you on the show here at the New York Stock Exchange.
Congratulations on going public and thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
My pleasure.
Appreciate it.
