Citibank and SDX Partner to Tokenize Private Market Shares

Citibank and SDX Group AG have unveiled a collaborative effort to tokenize late-stage pre-IPO equities, addressing long-standing inefficiencies in private markets. The partnership leverages Citi’s custody and tokenization expertise alongside SDX’s regulated blockchain-based Central Securities Depository platform.

Institutional investors gain streamlined access to high-growth venture-backed assets through a compliant digital framework. The solution circumvents traditional barriers like illiquidity and administrative complexity that have historically limited participation in private markets.

This initiative represents a strategic convergence of legacy finance infrastructure with distributed ledger technology. By combining Citi’s securities servicing capabilities with SDX’s blockchain architecture, the partners aim to modernize a sector ripe for disruption.