REAL Finance Secures First $100M Institutional Tokenization Deal With Factori AD

• The announcement coincides with the accelerating institutional adoption of tokenized real-world assets.
• As part of the partnership, Factori AD will oversee all regulated brokerage operations, such as customer onboarding, KYC, AML compliance, licensed OTC execution, and segregated custody arrangements.

Today, Factori AD, a fully licensed and EU-regulated investment broker offering brokerage, OTC execution, custody, and investment advisory services, signed its first securities tokenization deal with REAL Technologies Inc., the parent company of REAL Finance.

The agreement is the first live implementation of REAL Finance’s tokenization infrastructure for regulated securities and activates a dedicated institutional pipeline with more than $100 million in client assets.

As part of the partnership, Factori AD will oversee all regulated brokerage operations, such as customer onboarding, KYC, AML compliance, licensed OTC execution, and segregated custody arrangements, while directing institutional and client funds via REAL’s infrastructure. The Central Depository in Bulgaria will hold Bulgarian securities, while the Bank of New York will handle the safekeeping of international assets.

Equity derivatives connected to Alpha Bulgaria AD, a publicly traded investment firm with the symbol ALFB on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, are the subject of the first transaction under the agreement. The 5,000,000 warrants in the pilot, which are now worth around €2.75 each, have been set aside for tokenization using REAL’s infrastructure in accordance with Factori AD’s licensed custody and transfer-agent architecture. With Factori AD pledging over $100 million in further client assets for tokenization using REAL’s infrastructure, the deal is the first phase of a larger institutional pipeline.

The transaction is intended to verify the whole tokenized securities process, including regulated sourcing, licensed OTC execution, regulated custody, and on-chain tokenization. It will be carried out on an EVM-compatible blockchain prior to the anticipated launch of REAL Finance’s Layer 1 mainnet.

“We see growing institutional demand for regulated tokenization infrastructure that can bridge traditional securities markets with blockchain-based settlement systems. Through this agreement with REAL Finance, we are able to provide clients with a compliant framework for bringing real financial instruments on-chain while maintaining regulated execution, custody, and onboarding standards,” said Dimitar Tsvetanov, Managing Director at Factori AD.

Instead of using synthetic exposure products, the REAL Finance model only concentrates on tokenizing real securities, such as bonds, private market shares, and publicly traded stocks and derivatives. While licensed brokers and issuers are still in charge of the underlying securities and compliance requirements, the firm functions as the infrastructure and settlement layer.

“Signing this agreement demonstrates that REAL’s tokenization capabilities are operational and under contract with real securities and a regulated broker. The pilot allows us to validate the full model before we scale to service our multi-nine-figure committed assets pipeline,” said Ivo Grigorov, Chief Executive Officer of REAL Technologies.

“We designed the architecture around licensed custody, full compliance, and genuine instruments. This first executed deal, together with the committed flow, confirms institutional demand for the infrastructure we are building,” said Valentin Dimitrov, Chief Operating Officer of REAL Technologies.

The announcement coincides with the accelerating institutional adoption of tokenized real-world assets, as regulated financial institutions are increasingly investigating blockchain-based infrastructure for asset servicing and securities settlement.

With features like tokenization, risk visibility via dual business validators, on-chain insurance via its Decentralized Risk Framework, and DeFi composability, REAL Finance is creating an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain specifically designed for the whole lifecycle of real-world assets. Backed by Wiener Privatbank, the platform is pushing multi-jurisdictional regulatory harmonization ahead of mainnet.

Alpha Bulgaria AD is a publicly traded investment firm with the symbol ALFB on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. The business, which has its headquarters in Sofia, manages a diverse investment portfolio that includes investments in industrial and ESG-focused enterprises as well as financial institutions, real estate, energy and renewables, and other sectors.

With securities custody partnerships with the Bank of New York and the Central Depository in Bulgaria, Factori AD is a fully licensed, EU-regulated investment broker that offers brokerage, OTC execution, custody, and investment advisory services.