Policy Event Β· High impact

Korea Exchange Plans New Securities Market For Fractional Assets

Korea Exchange is preparing a November 2026 market for fractional investment securities backed by art, real estate and music royalties, with mock trading scheduled before launch. The plan pulls tokenization-adjacent RWA products into a supervised exchange framework and raises securities classification, custody and secondary-liquidity review requirements.

High impactπŸ‡°πŸ‡· South KoreaRegulationTokenizationKorea Exchange

APAC FINSTAB analysis

For APAC operators, this creates a high-impact signal around regulation, tokenization in South Korea. Named institutions or platforms: Korea Exchange. Teams should monitor the original source, map the change to licensing, custody, disclosure, and market-access obligations, and update their jurisdiction playbooks before the next compliance review.

Compliance read-through: map this event to entity licensing, market-access, custody, disclosure, token listing, and operational-risk obligations before expanding or marketing in the affected jurisdiction.

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