{"id":64725,"date":"2026-07-15T09:13:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=64725"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:13:34","slug":"sbi-global-asset-management-and-digift-launch-jx-bringing-a-japanese-asset-managers-equity-strategy-on-chain-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=64725","title":{"rendered":"SBI Global Asset Management and DigiFT Launch JX, Bringing a Japanese Asset Manager\u2019s Equity Strategy On-Chain for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach Newswire<\/a> &#8211; 15 July 2026 &#8211; DigiFT, a regulated digital asset exchange for institutional-grade real-world assets (&#8220;RWAs&#8221;), and SBI Global Asset Management Co., Ltd. (&#8220;SBI GAM&#8221;), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc., today announced the launch of the SBI Japan High Dividend Equity Strategy Token (&#8220;JX token&#8221;), a token designed to provide accredited or institutional investors with on-chain access to a Japanese high-dividend equity fund strategy managed by SBI Asset Management Co., Ltd. (&#8220;SBI AM&#8221;) which is a subsidiary of SBI GAM. The launch marks the first time a Japanese asset manager&#8217;s listed-equity strategy is brought on-chain through DigiFT&#8217;s regulated tokenization and distribution infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p> The launch comes as investor attention returns to Japanese equities, supported by the Tokyo Stock Exchange&#8217;s continued push for listed companies to improve capital efficiency and demonstrate greater awareness of share-price performance.<sup> <\/sup>It also reflects a broader evolution in tokenization: the value of tokenized RWAs distributed on public blockchains grew from USD 5.9 billion to USD 21.9 billion globally in 2025, moving the category beyond cash-like instruments and into actively managed public-market strategies. DigiFT was an early mover in this shift, launching a tokenized U.S. equity income fund developed with BNY in January 2026. This shift is now extending directly into Japan&#8217;s own institutional market, where SBI Group has been among the country&#8217;s most active builders of on-chain financial infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p> DigiFT holds Capital Markets Services and Recognised Market Operator licences from MAS, as well as Type 1 and Type 4 licences from the Hong Kong SFC &#8211; a dual regulatory standing that has made it a tokenization and distribution partner for global and regional asset managers, including UBS Asset Management, Invesco, BNY and Franklin Templeton. DigiFT&#8217;s roster now extends into Japan, through SBI GAM&#8217;s participation, adding a Japanese listed-equity strategy to that lineup for the first time. DigiFT is launching the JX Token on Solana, further expanding the availability of regulated RWAs on-chain, with ecosystem participants including Solana Company, Huma Finance and Plume. <\/p>\n<p> SBI Holdings brings its own substantial on-chain track record to the collaboration. The group reported consolidated revenue of JPY 1.90 trillion for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2026, with its Crypto-asset Business segment generating JPY 89.6 billion in revenue over the same period. SBI Holdings has taken direct stakes across the region&#8217;s tokenization infrastructure, including leading a $50 million investment in Startale Group to build a blockchain purpose-built for tokenized securities, and holding a majority stake in Osaka Digital Exchange, operator of a secondary market for security tokens in Japan. <\/p>\n<p> JX is structured around the underlying strategy managed by SBI AM. This authorized, manager-referenced model is critical as regulators are increasingly distinguishing tokenized securities developed with issuer or manager alignment from products that provide only indirect economic exposure. In a joint staff statement issued 28 January 2026, the U.S. SEC staff drew a formal line between issuer-sponsored tokenized securities, which can represent true ownership, and third-party products that typically offer only synthetic exposure or custodial entitlements &#8211; signalling an intent to encourage the former while curbing the spread of the latter. <\/p>\n<p> Henry Zhang, Founder and Group CEO, DigiFT: &#8220;Our mission at DigiFT has always been to bring real, institutional-grade assets on-chain through infrastructure that investors and asset managers can actually trust. JX extends that mission to Japan for the first time, opening regulated, on-chain access to Japanese equities. We&#8217;re proud to build this with SBI Group, one of Japan&#8217;s most forward-looking financial institutions, and excited about what this partnership signals for the future of tokenization across the region.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hashtag: #DigiFT<\/p>\n<p>The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.media-outreach.com\/index.php\/WebView\/476009\/118699\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach Newswire<\/a> &#8211; 15 July 2026 &#8211; DigiFT, a regulated digital asset exchange for institutional-grade real-world assets (&#8220;RWAs&#8221;), and SBI Global Asset Management Co., Ltd. (&#8220;SBI GAM&#8221;), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc., today announced the launch of the SBI Japan High Dividend Equity Strategy Token (&#8220;JX token&#8221;), a token designed to provide accredited or institutional investors with on-chain access to a Japanese high-dividend equity fund strategy managed by SBI Asset Management Co., Ltd. (&#8220;SBI AM&#8221;) which is a subsidiary of SBI GAM. The launch marks the first time a Japanese asset manager&#8217;s listed-equity strategy is brought on-chain through DigiFT&#8217;s regulated tokenization and distribution infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p> The launch comes as investor attention returns to Japanese equities, supported by the Tokyo Stock Exchange&#8217;s continued push for listed companies to improve capital efficiency and demonstrate greater awareness of share-price performance.<sup> <\/sup>It also reflects a broader evolution in tokenization: the value of tokenized RWAs distributed on public blockchains grew from USD 5.9 billion to USD 21.9 billion globally in 2025, moving the category beyond cash-like instruments and into actively managed public-market strategies. DigiFT was an early mover in this shift, launching a tokenized U.S. equity income fund developed with BNY in January 2026. This shift is now extending directly into Japan&#8217;s own institutional market, where SBI Group has been among the country&#8217;s most active builders of on-chain financial infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p> DigiFT holds Capital Markets Services and Recognised Market Operator licences from MAS, as well as Type 1 and Type 4 licences from the Hong Kong SFC &#8211; a dual regulatory standing that has made it a tokenization and distribution partner for global and regional asset managers, including UBS Asset Management, Invesco, BNY and Franklin Templeton. DigiFT&#8217;s roster now extends into Japan, through SBI GAM&#8217;s participation, adding a Japanese listed-equity strategy to that lineup for the first time. DigiFT is launching the JX Token on Solana, further expanding the availability of regulated RWAs on-chain, with ecosystem participants including Solana Company, Huma Finance and Plume. <\/p>\n<p> SBI Holdings brings its own substantial on-chain track record to the collaboration. The group reported consolidated revenue of JPY 1.90 trillion for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2026, with its Crypto-asset Business segment generating JPY 89.6 billion in revenue over the same period. SBI Holdings has taken direct stakes across the region&#8217;s tokenization infrastructure, including leading a $50 million investment in Startale Group to build a blockchain purpose-built for tokenized securities, and holding a majority stake in Osaka Digital Exchange, operator of a secondary market for security tokens in Japan. <\/p>\n<p> JX is structured around the underlying strategy managed by SBI AM. This authorized, manager-referenced model is critical as regulators are increasingly distinguishing tokenized securities developed with issuer or manager alignment from products that provide only indirect economic exposure. In a joint staff statement issued 28 January 2026, the U.S. SEC staff drew a formal line between issuer-sponsored tokenized securities, which can represent true ownership, and third-party products that typically offer only synthetic exposure or custodial entitlements &#8211; signalling an intent to encourage the former while curbing the spread of the latter. <\/p>\n<p> Henry Zhang, Founder and Group CEO, DigiFT: &#8220;Our mission at DigiFT has always been to bring real, institutional-grade assets on-chain through infrastructure that investors and asset managers can actually trust. JX extends that mission to Japan for the first time, opening regulated, on-chain access to Japanese equities. We&#8217;re proud to build this with SBI Group, one of Japan&#8217;s most forward-looking financial institutions, and excited about what this partnership signals for the future of tokenization across the region.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hashtag: #DigiFT<\/p>\n<p>The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.media-outreach.com\/index.php\/WebView\/476009\/118699\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-outreach-newswire","category-media-outreach-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}