Reports said that the Securities Exchange and Commission of Thailand (Thai SEC) has a license to an asset-backed token offering service based on the Ethereum blockchain.
It has been reported that Fraction, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based fintech firm Fraction Group, has received a license allowing it to list and trade tokens for fractional ownership of physical or digital assets.
However, the license was granted through the Thai SEC’s official portal for initial coin offering established back in 2018. The license lays out the foundation for Fraction’s upcoming service for asset digitization and fractionalization, referred to as an initial fraction offering (IFO).
The report said that the firm expects to list the first IFOs for subscriptions in Q1 2022, focusing on tokens for properties in collaboration with local real estate firms. According to the announcement, Fraction is exploring an IFO with an aggregate value of more than $460 million.
Ekapak Nirapathpongporn, the co-founder and CEO of Fraction, said:
“Now you can legally own a part of this villa — maybe 1% of it — rather than having to fork out $5 million to buy the whole thing.”
He added that the minimum amount to participate in an IFO would be around $150.
Likewise, Shaun Sales, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fraction, said:
“While many have been talking about it or trying to do it, our platform is completed, already up and running, and ready to list public assets.”
The industry of tokenized property has remained relatively niche due to the technology’s nascent status and regulatory uncertainty about such offerings.
Thus, according to estimations by British accountancy network Moore Global, the tokenized real estate market could hit $1.4 trillion in the next five years if just 0.5% of the total global property market were to be tokenized.
Source: Cointelegraph
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