BNK Investment & Securities has signed a strategic agreement with cultural-finance fintech EverTreasure to develop fractional investment and tokenized securities products tied to films, performances, musicals and artworks.
Summary
- BNK Investment & Securities and EverTreasure will jointly develop fractional investment and tokenized securities products tied to films, performances, musicals and artworks.
- BNK will handle securities issuance arrangements, distribution, investor recruitment and regulatory advice, while EverTreasure will source assets and provide blockchain and platform infrastructure.
- The companies plan to cooperate on asset due diligence, product structures, platform listings and marketing to institutional investors and high net worth clients.
- EverTreasure will use experience from its YEATU fractional investment platform to source cultural intellectual property and other assets for potential investment products.
- The partnership comes as South Korea prepares to introduce its formal tokenized securities framework in February 2027.
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Sept. 14 that the two companies entered a memorandum of understanding covering the development, issuance and distribution of investment products backed by cultural content, with responsibilities divided between the brokerage and EverTreasure.
BNK Investment & Securities will handle the arrangement and distribution of tokenized securities, investor recruitment and advice on compliance with applicable regulations. EverTreasure will identify underlying assets, connect blockchain technology to the products and operate the supporting platform.
The companies plan to work together on due diligence for underlying assets and product structures before potential offerings reach investors. Their cooperation will extend to securing listings on distribution platforms and conducting joint marketing and investor relations activities for institutional investors and high-net-worth clients.
Overseas expansion is part of the agreement, with the companies planning to use their international entities and networks to pursue opportunities outside South Korea.
BNK tokenized securities plan targets cultural assets
The agreement gives BNK Investment & Securities another route into tokenized securities as South Korea prepares to put a formal legal and market structure around blockchain-based financial products.
Cultural assets identified under the partnership include films, performances, musicals and artworks. EverTreasure will be responsible for sourcing competitive assets that could form the basis of fractional or tokenized investment products, while BNK Investment & Securities will provide the securities-market infrastructure needed to bring eligible products to investors.
BNK Investment & Securities CEO Shin Myung-ho described the agreement as a starting point for connecting the value of different types of cultural content with financial products.
“This agreement is a meaningful starting point for providing investors with new investment opportunities by connecting the value of various cultural content with finance,” Shin said.
The brokerage plans to continue finding tokenized securities opportunities backed by competitive real-world assets and gradually expand the financial products and services it offers in the sector, according to the report.
BNK Investment & Securities has already been preparing infrastructure for this market. The brokerage is among the securities companies participating in Koscom’s joint tokenized-securities issuance platform project, which is being developed as financial firms prepare for South Korea’s new regulatory system.
The timing puts the EverTreasure partnership months before South Korea begins the first phase of its tokenized securities rollout in February 2027.
Crypto.news previously reported that the first phase will cover selected privately placed money market funds and bonds, unlisted stocks issued through trust structures and publicly offered fractional investment securities. The planned scope will later extend to other publicly offered securities.
EverTreasure brings YEATU fractional investment platform
EverTreasure is expected to contribute experience developed through YEATU, its fractional investment platform for art and cultural content.
The platform connects investors with projects involving artworks, performances, films and exhibitions. EverTreasure plans to use the content intellectual property sourcing capabilities and investor network built through YEATU to identify products for the BNK partnership.
YEATU says it has handled more than 260 million won in investments as of Dec. 31, 2025, with more than 10,000 members and 6,000 global investors registered on the platform. Its investment offerings cover cultural projects that can generate returns through structures established for individual assets or projects.
For institutional and professional investors, the company provides selected projects involving films, concerts, musicals and fine art. Its process can include due diligence, investment documentation, contract negotiations and monitoring after an investment has been made.
EverTreasure was founded in 2023 and has developed operations around cultural content, valuation and blockchain-based authentication. Its work with BNK will concentrate on finding suitable underlying assets and connecting them with the technical systems required for tokenized products.
The agreement gives both companies defined roles before a product reaches the distribution stage. Asset sourcing and blockchain integration will sit primarily with EverTreasure, while BNK will handle securities issuance arrangements, distribution and investor-facing functions within its regulated business.
South Korea is preparing tokenized securities for 2027
The partnership comes as South Korea moves from limited fractional investment structures toward a regulated market that can accommodate tokenized versions of conventional securities.
The National Assembly passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and Capital Markets Act in January 2026, creating the legal basis for securities ownership and issuance information to be recorded through distributed ledger technology.
South Korea has since set Feb. 4, 2027, as the effective date for the framework. The Financial Services Commission released a three-stage roadmap in September under which existing licensed financial companies can handle tokenized securities within the scope of their licenses.
The rules are particularly relevant to fractional investment businesses because investment-contract securities and fractional products will be incorporated into regulated issuance and distribution channels.
Regulators had spent months preparing the operating details. In May, the FSC was working on detailed tokenized securities rules covering issuance, trading, settlement and investor protection before the legal changes take effect.
Market infrastructure is being built at the same time. Samsung SDS won a contract to develop the Korea Securities Depository’s token securities platform, with the system expected to connect distributed-ledger records with the depository’s existing electronic securities infrastructure.
Planned functions include issuance records, circulation checks, rights management and real-time monitoring of token volumes. Completion is expected around the time the amended laws take effect in February.
Korean brokerages build tokenization infrastructure
Securities firms have started preparing their own systems and partnerships before the regulatory framework becomes operational.
Hanwha Investment & Securities recently completed a tokenized securities platform supporting Avalanche and Hyperledger Besu, according to a Sept. 7 report. Development began with blockchain technology company FairSquare Lab in 2025.
Hanwha has backed its infrastructure work with investments in companies operating across tokenization and blockchain markets. The brokerage holds a stake in Securitize and disclosed a 30 billion won investment in Digital Asset, the operator of the institutional-focused Canton Network, in July.
BNK Investment & Securities has taken a partnership-led approach as part of its preparations. In 2024, it signed an agreement with Koscom to cooperate on tokenized-securities platform development, joining brokerages including Kiwoom Securities, Daishin Securities, IBK Investment & Securities and Yuanta Securities that had entered similar arrangements with the financial technology company.
The EverTreasure agreement extends that work into the asset and product side of the market, with cultural intellectual property and other content forming the pool from which potential fractional and tokenized securities products can be developed.
Shin said BNK Investment & Securities intends to continue identifying tokenized-securities businesses using competitive real-world assets and expand its related financial products and services.
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