Securitize & Cantor Equity Partners II Registration Statement on Form S-4 Declared Effective by SEC
Proposed transaction moves Securitize closer to becoming a publicly traded company.
Securitize, Inc., and Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc. (“CEPT”), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”) filed by Securitize Holdings, Inc. (“Pubco”) in connection with the previously announced proposed business combination between Securitize and CEPT.
The SEC’s declaration of effectiveness marks an important milestone in the proposed transaction and moves Securitize substantially closer to becoming a publicly traded company. The proposed business combination will be submitted to CEPT shareholders of record as of May 11, 2026 (the “Record Date”), for approval at a special meeting scheduled for June 29, 2026, and if approved, is expected to close shortly thereafter, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company is expected to operate under the name Securitize Corp., and its shares are expected to trade on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “SECZ.”
“This marks another important milestone for Securitize and for the broader institutional adoption of tokenization,” said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Securitize. “Over the past several years, we have built regulated infrastructure designed to bring capital markets onchain in partnership with many of the world’s leading financial institutions. Becoming a public company would position Securitize to continue scaling that infrastructure globally as tokenization increasingly becomes part of mainstream financial markets.”
Since announcing the proposed business combination, Securitize has continued to expand its position as a leading provider of regulated tokenization infrastructure for institutional capital markets, including:
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Announcing a collaboration with the New York Stock Exchange to support the development of tokenized securities infrastructure and digital transfer-agent standards
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Partnering with Computershare to introduce issuer-sponsored tokenized shares for U.S. issuers
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Expanding regulated tokenized securities trading infrastructure through integrations with leading market participants including Jump Trading and Jupiter
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Continuing growth of tokenized investment products with leading asset managers including BlackRock, Apollo Global Management, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck
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Expanding its ongoing partnership with BlackRock through the planned launch of the BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle, the asset manager’s second tokenized fund with Securitize following the growth of BUIDL into one of the largest tokenized treasury funds in the market
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Further expanding the regulated infrastructure stack across broker-dealer, transfer-agent, fund-administration and trading-system operations in both the United States and Europe
Source: Securitize
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