South Korea Is Publishing Tokenized Securities Rules in July

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South Korea's Financial Services Commission plans to release detailed tokenized securities regulations in July, FSC Vice Chairman Kwon Dae-young confirmed at the second meeting of the country's public-private tokenized securities council on Friday. The July package is expected to include a roadmap for tokenizing stocks, bonds, and money market funds, possible changes to over-the-counter trading limits, and rules allowing fractional investment products to pool similar underlying assets. The framework is designed to bring blockchain-based securities under South Korea's existing capital markets structure before the amended Capital Markets Act and Electronic Securities Act take full effect on February 4, 2027 — the country's first regulated environment for issuing, distributing, and trading tokenized securities on distributed ledger infrastructure. The legislation will legally recognize blockchain ledgers as valid securities registries, moving tokenized assets from their current experimental status into FSC jurisdiction with full investor protection requirements.

The July announcement will be a significant test of how far South Korea is willing to integrate distributed ledger infrastructure into its regulated capital markets while maintaining the investor protection standards that govern traditional securities. The public-private council launched in March to design issuance, trading, infrastructure, and settlement rules is meeting under real deadline pressure with less than eight months until the framework's implementation date. South Korea's tokenization ambitions extend beyond securities: the Bank of Korea's new governor Hyun-Song Shin voiced support for tokenized deposits in his first public address in April, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced a pilot project that same month using tokenized deposits to execute government operational spending, with a full rollout planned for Q4 2026. The convergence of tokenized securities regulation, central bank support for tokenized deposits, and government operational pilots positions South Korea as one of the most comprehensively active jurisdictions globally in building out blockchain-based financial infrastructure across multiple asset categories simultaneously.

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