The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and fund administrator Apex Group announced a collaboration to leverage LSEG’s Digital Market Infrastructure (DMI) for the tokenization and distribution of private funds. The service will go live during H1 2026.
DMI is one of LSEG’s key tokenization initiatives, which launched with private funds but plans to service other asset classes. The aim is to cover the full asset cycle, including token issuance and distribution as well as settlement and servicing. A current gap in that lifecycle is trade execution or “secondaries” in the case of funds. LSEG is currently developing this capability, which Apex Group CEO Peter Hughes recognizes as a key benefit of the collaboration.
“We’re bringing forward the ability to trade private market assets, particularly the funds of leading institutional asset managers through the markets at LSEG,” said Hughes. He noted that in the past these funds were not accessible to most people unless you “were an institutional investor, able to invest millions of dollars and have your money locked up for seven to ten years. Now that’s all changing.”
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