Securities tokenization is hitting an inflection point as some firms have tokenization efforts in production or are preparing to cross the digital divide.

The tokenization of securities is taking off, and securities firms are moving fast to take advantage of what could be a long-promised leap forward via distributed ledger technology (DLT), otherwise known as blockchains. For securities, tokenization is the ownership of a traditional financial asset but expressed as digital tokens tied to a distributed ledger that…