Securitize Acquires Pacific Stock Transfer

Securitize Announces Proposed Business Combination With Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT)

January 28, 2026

Financial Services

Securitize and Cantor Equity Partners II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, announced a proposed business combination in which Securitize Holdings will become a publicly listed company (expected to operate as Securitize Corp. on NYSE under ticker “SECZ”). The transaction is subject to CEPT shareholder approval and customary closing conditions, with SEC review milestones completed as of early June 2026.

Columbia Banking System to Acquire Pacific Premier Bancorp

September 2, 2025

Financial Services

Columbia Banking System, Inc. (Columbia) entered into a definitive all-stock merger agreement to acquire Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. Columbia will receive Pacific Premier in a stock-for-stock exchange (0.9150 Columbia shares for each Pacific Premier share). The transaction received required regulatory approvals and was later reported as closed as of August 31, 2025.

Securitize Acquires MG Stover's Fund Administration Business

April 15, 2025

Financial Services

Securitize has acquired the fund administration business of MG Stover, adding the team and capabilities to Securitize Fund Services (SFS) and making SFS the largest digital-asset fund administrator. The deal expands Securitize’s fund administration, compliance, and reporting capabilities and increases SFS’s assets under administration to roughly $38 billion across 715 funds.

Ripple Acquires Standard Custody & Trust Company

February 13, 2024

Financial Services

Ripple has agreed to acquire Standard Custody & Trust Company, an institutional-grade digital-asset custody and trust platform (a subsidiary of PolySign, Inc.), to expand its portfolio of regulatory licenses and strengthen its custody and payments capabilities. The deal brings Standard Custody’s limited-purpose trust charter and money transmitter licenses into Ripple’s regulatory footprint; closing is subject to regulatory approvals and standard conditions.

Securitize Acquires Onramp Invest

August 17, 2023

Financial Services

Securitize has acquired digital-asset wealth platform Onramp Invest, enabling registered investment advisors (RIAs) representing over $40 billion in AUM to offer tokenized alternative assets through Onramp’s dashboard. Onramp will operate as a subsidiary and integrate Securitize’s tokenized alternative investment products to expand distribution and advisor access to private-market strategies.

Securitize Acquires Distributed Technology Markets and Velocity Platform

October 15, 2020

Payments & Fintech

Securitize signed a definitive agreement to acquire Distributed Technology Markets, LLC (DTM), an SEC- and FINRA-registered broker-dealer and ATS, and to acquire Velocity Platform, LLC, a money services business with money transmitter licenses. The deal (terms undisclosed) is intended to expand Securitize’s regulated capabilities across primary issuance and secondary trading of private placement and digital asset securities and is subject to regulatory approvals.