Bitfinex Securities Market Inclusion Report unveils challenges and opportunities for Latam Capital Market

August 20th Bitfinex Securities Market Inclusion Report unveils challenges and opportunities for Latam Capital Market

San Salvador, El Salvador – August 20, 2025 – Bitfinex Securities El Salvador Sa de CV has announced the release of its first Latin American Market Inclusion Report, highlighting the tokenization as a transformative socioeconomic opportunity in Latin America.

Building on expert interviews and regional analysis, this study identifies systematic barriers to Latin American capital markets, ranging from relatively high fees and complex bureaucratic hurdles to deep and low market financial literacy. These barriers are seen to contribute to the difficulties entrepreneurs and investors have experienced from accessing the region’s fair and efficient capital markets.

This report identifies the phenomenon of “liquidity delay” in the region. This refers to the current obstacles and inefficiencies of the traditional Ratum capital market that slowed capital flows and hindered investment. Factors contributing to this include high fees, complex regulations and limited market participation. Structural issues such as working hours, technology barriers, high start-up costs, and bureaucratic and regulatory hurdles have also been identified as pose challenges to business and investment growth in the region.

The Bitfinex Securities Market Inclusion report includes analysis, findings and experts from eight different Latin American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama and Peru.

Tokenization is presented as providing a solution to the “liquidity latency” problem identified in Latin America. Tokenized assets digitize the ownership of bonds, stocks or funds by issuing tokens on a blockchain in which each token corresponds to the fund’s share or unit. This structure allows for decentralized ownership and management, with several other benefits, including accessibility, transparency, and efficiency.

By increasing issuance costs to just 2-4%, reducing listing times to 60-90 days, and enabling fractional ownership, blockchain-based securities can make investments dramatically more comprehensive and efficient.

“Tokenization represents the first true opportunity for a generation to rethink finance,” said Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities. “It reduces costs, accelerates access and creates more direct connections between issuers and investors.”

With regulatory advances in countries such as El Salvador, Argentina and Brazil, the report suggests that Latin America is being put into place on its own to accept tokenized markets. For example, in 2021, El Salvador became the first country to recognize Bitcoin as fiat currency, and despite recent changes to the law, digital asset technology has firmly established itself in the country’s economy. In 2023, El Salvador passed the Digital Asset Issuance Act (Lead) to create a fully regulated framework for tokenization of assets.

Bitfinex Securities calls this not only economic change, but broader socioeconomic opportunities for the region to overcome historic barriers and promote growth.

As shown in the report, tokenization technologies could improve accessibility for both capital and investors by reducing the costs of capital investment and capital raising, accelerating the pace of listings, providing investment efficiency, accessibility, democratization, and expanding financial inclusion. Tokenization may open up brighter opportunities in the region, and the report highlights and dives these possibilities.

To access the report, click here: (go.bitfinex.com/market-inclusion-report)

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