[Digital Securities Forum 2023]Looking ahead to the further development of security tokens, from asset expansion to the emergence of a secondary market: Held on 12/13 | CoinDesk JAPAN

The security token (digital securities) market is gaining momentum. Issuance began in 2021, and the amount issued has more than doubled every year. At the end of the year, buying and selling will finally begin on Osaka Digital Exchange’s (ODX) START, Japan’s first secondary market.

Security tokens (digital securities) have the characteristics of making investments smaller and more efficient, and once they start buying and selling on START, they become more accessible and become more popular in the market. It is expected that this will lead to further expansion.

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun will hold a forum in collaboration with N.Avenue, which operates CoinDesk JAPAN, to disseminate the current status and future prospects of the security token (digital securities) market, as it did two years ago and last year (real-world and online). hybrid event). On the day, we will look back on the topics of 2023 with companies and organizations that lead the issuance and research and development of digital securities, and look forward to the future of the market from 2024 onwards.

overview

Name: Digital Securities Forum 2023 ~The beginning of a new chapter in the security token market~
Date and time: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:00-16:00 (doors open 12:30)
Venue: KABUTO ONE Hall (4th floor, 7-1 Nihonbashi Kabutocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
Capacity: 150 people (online streaming available)
Sponsor: Nihon Keizai Shimbun / Co-sponsor: N.Avenue
Sponsored by: Progmat, Kenedix, Nomura Securities, BOOSTRY, Daiwa Securities Group, Osaka Digital Exchange, Tokai Tokyo Securities, TIS
Cooperation: CoinDesk JAPAN
Sponsored by: Financial Services Agency

Application deadline
[Venue Audit]December 6th (Wednesday) 23:59
[Online Audit]December 13th (Wednesday) 16:00

program

[13:00-13:10 Opening Greetings]
Mr. Mamoru Yanase, Deputy Director, Policy Bureau, Financial Services Agency

[13:10-13:30 Lecture]
Progmat Representative Director Founder and CEO Tatsuya Saito

[13:30-14:00 Lecture]
Akihiro Nakao, Executive Officer, Digital Securitization Department, Kenedix

[14:10-15:00 Panel discussion]
“What is ST’s growth strategy in 2024? From asset expansion to the emergence of the secondary market (tentative)”

[15:10-16:00 Panel discussion]
“Current location and further progress of real estate ST, which is driving the ST market (tentative)”

*Please note that the program and lecture contents are subject to change without notice.

Speakers

Mr. Mamoru Yanase | Deputy Director, Policy Bureau, Financial Services Agency

Joined the Ministry of Finance in 1992. He has been in his current position since June 2022 after serving as a senior expert in the IMF’s Financial and Capital Markets Department, director of the Foreign Exchange Market Division in the International Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, director of the First Banking Division of the Financial Services Agency’s Supervisory Bureau, and a counselor in the Financial Services Agency’s Planning and Markets Bureau.

Mr. Tatsuya Saito｜Progmat Founder and CEO

In 2010, joined Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking. After working in corporate sales, business planning, and IT planning, he established the FinTech Promotion Office in 2016, and as his first full-time manager, planned and promoted the digital strategy of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking. As “serial intrapreneurs”, many organizations have joined the information bank platform “Dprime”, the digital securities platform “Progmat”, the stable coin platform “Progmat Coin”, the functional NFT platform “Progmat UT”, etc. We will launch a “Digital Asset Co-Creation Consortium” etc. In 2022, he announced that his digital asset infrastructure business would become an independent company with investments from multiple financial institutions, exchanges, and software companies, and he became the company’s representative in October 2013. 7 patents registered.

Mr. Akihiro Nakao | Kenedix Executive Officer, Digital Security Manager

Joined Kenedix in 2007. He works in the Corporate Planning Department, where he handles planning work and fundraising. Since 2011, he has participated in the launch of a residential REIT as CFO. Established a local subsidiary in Singapore in 2015 to promote business development in Asia. Since January 2020, he has promoted the real estate security token business as the head of the Digital Security Department, and has been involved in numerous real estate security token offerings, including issuing Japan’s first real estate security token in August 2021. be involved. Prior to joining Kenedix, he was consistently involved in investment banking at a securities company and has extensive deal experience including large-scale financing and M&A projects.

Mr. Atsushi Itaya｜Daiwa Securities Group Headquarters/Daiwa Securities Managing Executive Officer

Joined Daiwa Securities in 1992. In 2014, served as the Human Resources Department Manager at Daiwa Securities Group Headquarters, and in 2019 as Deputy Personnel Officer and Deputy Planning Officer at the same company. From April 2021, became Deputy Planning Officer and Deputy Officer IT/Operations (current position). In the same year, he launched a Daiwa Securities Group-wide project related to security tokens, and as a manager he leads the security token business at Daiwa Securities Group, leading the real estate security token offering projects that Daiwa Securities has undertaken to date. He also serves as a director of the Japan STO Association, and is committed to the development and growth of the security token market as a whole.

Mr. Hiroo Amori｜Osaka Digital Exchange President and Representative Director

After graduating from university, he built up a base in corporate finance at Nippon Credit Bank (currently Aozora Bank), and engaged in a wide range of venture and acquisition investments at ITX (formerly Nissho Iwai-affiliated IT-related business and investment company). He gained knowledge of IT-related technology by being seconded to a venture company and working on a large LED display installation project in Shibuya. Afterwards, he engaged in the management of IT companies after acquisitions, gaining knowledge in both finance and business company management. From 2018, he leveraged his knowledge of finance and IT to manage the crypto asset exchange industry and lead Japan’s first STO public offering at SBI Securities. He has contributed to the development and growth of the market, including making various proposals regarding the regulation of ICOs and STOs. He has been in his current position since 2021, aiming to create Japan’s first ST secondary market.

Mr. Daisuke Miyajima | Kenedix Representative Director and President

Joined Kenedix in 1998. In 2004, he became president and representative director of Kenedix REIT Management (currently Kenedix Real Estate Investment Advisors), and grew Kenedix Real Estate Investment Corporation (currently KDX Real Estate Investment Corporation) into one of Japan’s leading independent J-REITs. In 2013, he became Kenedix representative director (current position). Prior to joining Kenedix, he worked in the Capital Markets Department at Mitsubishi Trust and Banking (currently Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking), and in 1992 was assigned to the Los Angeles branch where he was involved in the real estate financing business, and has extensive international experience. He has over 30 years of experience in the real estate investment field, including real estate securitization and real estate financing businesses.

Tomohisa Murakami | Executive Officer, Investment Banking Products, Nomura Securities

After graduating from Kyoto University Graduate School of Informatics in 2000, he joined Nomura Securities and was assigned to the Financial Markets Department. After being primarily involved in interest rate and foreign exchange related product structuring and development, he worked at the London subsidiary where he started working in 2003, where he also engaged in debt syndication work as well as equity-related product development. After returning to Japan in 2008, he worked consistently on product development and sales operations in the global markets, domestic sales division, and investment banking business fields, before joining the company’s syndication department as equity syndication section manager in 2014. He was in charge of pricing and marketing for equity-related primary products, and since 2019 has been in charge of syndication, including bonds. He has been in his current position since April 2022.

Mr. Toshinori Sasaki | BOOSTRY Representative Director and CEO

After graduating from the University of Tsukuba’s Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, he worked at SAP Japan in system development for financial institutions. Since 2008, he has been working in the investment banking department of Nomura Securities, where he has been involved in financing operations for companies and local governments, gaining practical experience in financing operations using various financial products. Since 2016, he has been a member of the new business development department within the Nomura Group, and in 2017, he joined N-Village, a subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, where he engaged in research and research on fundraising using blockchain. He founded BOOSTRY in September 2019 and holds his current position. He is working on realizing P2P finance and marketing x finance.

Yuki Kamimoto | N.Avenue/CoinDesk JAPAN Representative Director and CEO

Joined Yahoo (currently LINE Yahoo) in 2013. After working in media and advertising business development mainly at Yahoo! News, he was in charge of launching a new business with an Israeli tech venture. In 2018, he established N.Avenue, a media company that disseminates Web3 information, and became president and representative director. He runs the official Japanese version of CoinDesk, the world’s largest digital asset news media, and btokyo, which hosts conferences and community activities in this area. In addition, since 2023, he has served as a director of the Blockchain Promotion Association (BCCC).

｜Text/Editing: CoinDesk JAPAN Editorial Department
｜Image: N.Avenue