20 Aug Bitfinex Securities Market Inclusion Report Unveils LATAM Capital Market Challenges And Alternatives
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – August 20, 2025 – Bitfinex Securities El Salvador S.A. de C.V, is happy to announce the discharge of its inaugural Latin America Market Inclusion Report, spotlighting tokenisation as a transformative socio-economic alternative for Latin America.
The examine, constructed on knowledgeable interviews and regional evaluation, identifies systemic limitations to Latin American capital markets, starting from comparatively excessive charges and complicated bureaucratic hurdles, to restricted market depth and low monetary literacy. These limitations are seen as contributing to the difficulties skilled by entrepreneurs and traders from accessing truthful, environment friendly capital markets within the area.
The Report identifies a phenomenon of “liquidity latency” within the area, which refers back to the present obstacles and inefficiencies in conventional LATAM capital markets which have slowed the circulation of capital and hindered funding. Elements which have contributed to this embody excessive charges, advanced laws, and restricted market participation. Structural points together with working hours, technological limitations, excessive start-up prices, and bureaucratic and regulatory hurdles have additionally been recognized as posing challenges to enterprise and funding progress within the area.
The Bitfinex Securities Market Inclusion Report consists of evaluation, findings and consultants from eight totally different Latin American international locations together with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, México, Panamá and Perú.
Tokenisation is offered as providing an answer to the “liquidity latency” points recognized in Latin America. Tokenised belongings digitise possession of bonds, equities or funds, by issuing tokens on a blockchain, the place every token corresponds to a share or unit of the fund. This construction permits for decentralised possession and administration along with a number of different benefits similar to accessibility, transparency and effectivity.
By decreasing issuance prices to as little as 2-4% of capital raised, chopping itemizing occasions to 60-90 days, and enabling fractional possession, blockchain-based securities could make investing dramatically extra inclusive and environment friendly.
“Tokenisation represents the primary real alternative in generations to rethink finance,” mentioned Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities. “It lowers prices, accelerates entry, and creates a extra direct connection between issuers and traders.”
With regulatory advances in international locations like El Salvador, Argentina, and Brazil, the report suggests Latin America is uniquely positioned to embrace tokenised markets. In 2021, as an example, El Salvador turned the primary nation to recognise Bitcoin as authorized tender, and regardless of latest modifications within the regulation, digital asset know-how stays firmly entrenched within the nation’s financial system. In 2023, El Salvador handed the Digital Belongings Issuance Regulation (LEAD), creating a totally regulated framework for the tokenisation of belongings.
Bitfinex Securities calls this not solely a monetary shift, however a broader socio-economic likelihood for the area to beat historic limitations and drive progress.
As indicated within the Report, tokenisation know-how may enhance accessibility for each companies in search of capital and traders by way of reducing the price of investing and elevating capital, accelerating the tempo of listings, and offering higher effectivity, accessibility and democratisation of funding, and increasing monetary inclusion. Tokenisation may open a brighter alternative for the area, and the Report underscores and dive into these potentialities.
To entry the report click on right here: [go.bitfinex.com/market-inclusion-report]
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Based in 2021, Bitfinex Securities seeks to use the technological advantages of the digital asset trade to international capital markets. By way of the facilitation of real-time settlement, 24/7/365 buying and selling, entry to international liquidity, and the power to self-custody belongings, Bitfinex Securities permits for extra environment friendly, cheaper, and simpler interactions between traders and issuers.
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