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2026-07-29 10:04:15

China’s cross-border brokerage crackdown revives the case for tokenized equities

A TechFlowPost opinion piece argues that China’s tightening campaign against cross-border U.S. stock brokerage services has turned access to asset allocation into a broader question of financial stratification. The article says that after June 12, 2026, mainland Chinese users of Futu and UP Fintech’s Tiger Brokers could still hold, sell, and withdraw positions, but could no longer add funds or increase exposure. It links that shift to a wider policy framework in which Chinese regulators, led by a joint plan from eight agencies including the China Securities Regulatory Commission, seek to shut down illegal cross-border securities, futures, and fund activity within two years, while banning new account openings and inbound capital immediately. The piece traces a regulatory timeline from talks with Futu and Tiger in November 2021, to the companies being labeled illegal operators in December 2022, app removals in May 2023, and formal probes plus the new joint cleanup in May 2026. It also cites fines of RMB 1.85 billion and RMB 410 million, premarket share-price drops of 45% and 30%, Hong Kong’s roughly HK$285 billion in IPO proceeds in 2025, and the rising weight of information technology in China’s CSI 300. Against that backdrop, the author argues that tokenized stocks and other on-chain real-world assets may become a new distribution layer for global productive assets, especially for investors who are locked out of traditional brokerage channels.

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