How does Apex Digital's strategic partnership with LSEG enhance its distribution capabilities for tokenized funds?
Apex Digital's partnership with LSEG — the London Stock Exchange Group and owner of Refinitiv — gives it direct integration into a global wealth distribution platform that serves approximately 400,000 institutional investors. Angie Walker describes LSEG as a "super strategic" partner precisely because of this reach: Apex's fund issuance services are being embedded directly into LSEG's infrastructure, creating a level of distribution access that Walker characterises as unprecedented in the tokenization space.
"Distribution is king. Everything we do is actually all about distribution — whether that's distribution onto a chain or multiple chains, distribution to a centralized digital venue, a decentralized digital venue, or to an aggregator."
— Angie Walker, Global Head of Commercialization, Apex DigitalThe LSEG partnership is a direct embodiment of this distribution-first philosophy. Rather than building a proprietary investor network from scratch, Apex Digital is plugging its tokenized fund issuance capabilities into an existing institutional ecosystem of enormous scale. The result is a shortcut from issuance to the hands of institutional capital — one of the most persistent friction points in bringing tokenized products to market.
This matters even more in the context of the broader tokenization landscape: global real-world asset tokenization has just exceeded approximately $25 billion, and 42% of the 100 senior managers surveyed in Apex Digital and Mergermarket's joint research cited broadening investor access as the primary driver for tokenization. Distribution reach is not a secondary concern — it is the central bottleneck. The LSEG integration addresses that bottleneck directly, at institutional scale. You can hear Walker and Tom Bennett unpack the full findings on The Single Source on Listenly.
About Tom Bennett
Tom Bennett serves as Global Head of Fintech at Apex Digital, where his work sits at the intersection of financial infrastructure and emerging tokenization technology. In this episode, Bennett was interviewed alongside Angie Walker, Global Head of Commercialization for Apex Digital, by host Brian — giving the conversation both a product and commercial perspective on tokenization adoption. The episode is built around a joint survey report conducted with Mergermarket, covering 100 senior managers across fund manufacturing and private markets, spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, with assets under management ranging from $500 million to $5 billion. Bennett's role in shaping Apex Digital's fintech positioning makes him a direct voice on how infrastructure decisions — including strategic partnerships like the one with LSEG — translate into real distribution advantages for asset managers issuing tokenized funds. Apex Digital's scale in this space is significant: the firm represents approximately 16% of all global crypto fund administration, with 13 years of experience in the sector, and grew from 31 tokenization projects in flight to 557 within a single year.
See also
Angie Walker highlights that Apex Digital was part of the team that launched PhilQ, described as the first-ever triple-A rated liquidity fund rated by Moody's in a tokenized format — a landmark milestone in institutional tokenization adoption.
Angie Walker states that Apex has been doing crypto fund administration for 13 years and represents approximately 16% of all crypto fund administration globally, serving notable clients including Coinbase Asset Management and SkyBridge Capital.
Apex Invest is described as a marketplace designed to match fund managers with new types of investors. According to Tom Bennett, the platform currently has over 100 funds and approximately $40 trillion of allocated capital.