The New York Stock Exchange has signed agreements with four more firms to support its forthcoming tokenized securities trading platform, adding Computershare and Equiniti, the world’s two largest transfer agents, along with Broadridge and crypto native Superstate. They join digital natives Securitize and tZERO, bringing the total to six.
Together the three incumbents serve close to 5,000 publicly listed companies and nearly all the S&P 500, which means most large cap issuers now have an existing provider able to mint issuer sponsored tokens for the venue. The platform remains subject to regulatory approval.
When NYSE parent, ICE, invested in tZERO in August and named it as an expected second digital transfer agent alongside Securitize, the open question was whether the NYSE’s rulebook would harden into a de facto standard for tokenized equities. The firms that hold most issuer mandates have now accepted NYSE’s format rules. Equiniti’s participation also confirms an interoperability path with Bullish, which acquired Equiniti.
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