Apex Group has announced the launch of a fully regulated platform for the management of investment funds directly on-chain.
The launch was made possible by the alliance with the blockchain provider ZIGChain.
Apex Group
Apex Group is one of the largest fund managers in the world, with 3.4 trillion dollars in AUM.
The objective of the company is to promote a positive change in financial services, while supporting the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices.
It was founded in Bermuda in 2003, and since then it has always invested in innovation and talent.
It stands out for its “single-source” solution and the unified multi-asset class platform that supports the entire value chain, leveraging cutting-edge innovative technologies and benefiting from interjurisdictional expertise provided by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals.
Among the services it offers are capital raising, corporate and business management, fund and investor administration, portfolio and investment management, ESG, capital markets, and transaction support.
Apex has already tokenized over 32 billion dollars of assets through Tokeny and has supported the BitcoinYield Fund of Coinbase.
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ZIGChain
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ZIGChain is a blockchain of Level 1 specifically designed to democratize access to investment opportunities and facilitate financial inclusion.
Its goal is to enable developers and institutions to launch scalable and compliant protocols for profit sharing, fund tokenization, and asset management in the real world.
Its ecosystem includes Zignaly, a social investment platform that connects over 600,000 users with more than 150 professional portfolio managers.
Additionally, ZIGChain also supports Zamanat, a platform for tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) that is also Sharia-compliant, combining ethical finance with a programmable blockchain infrastructure.
The partnership between Apex and ZIGChain
The strategic alliance between Apex Group and ZIGChain is precisely to launch a tokenized funds infrastructure.
The alliance also includes Truleum Venture Partners, Tokeny, Disrupt.com, and Zamanat, and brings together industry leaders in fund administration, tokenization compliance, asset management, and regulatory design.
Thanks to this partnership, they will launch the first fully regulated on-chain fund ecosystem in the Middle East, focused on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).
Its goal is to provide a modular and Sharia-compliant infrastructure for the launch and management of trillions of tokenized funds, natively distributed on ZIGChain and built to meet institutional standards.
The initiative was presented during an exclusive meeting in Dubai.
The alliance reflects a broader shift underway in institutional finance, where traditional asset managers are increasingly exploring native blockchain infrastructures to modernize fund operations.
The tokenization platform
By tokenizing units of entire fund structures, instead of individual assets, the integration of blockchain becomes operationally more feasible for large financial institutions. For Apex Group, this move reflects a clear strategic trajectory in distributed ledger technology infrastructure, following the acquisition of Tokeny and now expanding into on-chain fund ecosystems, where permitted by applicable regulatory frameworks.
The result is a faster settlement, lower costs, greater transparency, and full regulatory compliance.
It is a model of how institutional capital can move on-chain and a clear signal that traditional finance is beginning to adopt blockchain at the infrastructural level.
The comments of the leaders of the new partnership
The co-founder of ZIGChain, Abdul Rafay Gadit, stated:
“This is the institutional model to unlock the global market of funds. The reach of Apex Group, the compliance architecture of Tokeny, and the regulatory expertise of Truleum, combined on ZIGChain, form an institutional-level foundation for a new era of on-chain capital markets. It’s not every day that a pre-launch chain collaborates with one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is how tokenization becomes mainstream, and we are honored to contribute to making it happen”.
The CEO of Apex Group for the Middle East, Christiane El Habre, added:
“This alliance is a natural extension of Apex Group’s mission to modernize fund infrastructure globally. We are proud to support this one-of-a-kind initiative and to help promote compliant tokenization in new markets and asset classes”.
Finally, the President of the Middle East Fund and East Stablecoin Association, Bhaskar Dasgupta, commented:
“Tokenization introduces a structural change in fund management by enabling programmability, transparency, and near-instant settlement, without compromising regulatory oversight. If implemented within a solid regulatory framework, it allows asset managers to launch compliant and modular funds with greater operational efficiency and potential for global distribution. This alliance represents a decisive step towards integrating these capabilities at the infrastructural level”.