Prestigious Annual Awards Program Celebrates a Decade of Recognising the World’s Most Innovative Financial Technology Companies
SINGAPORE, 19 MAR 2026 – Libeara, the institutional-grade tokenisation platform incubated by SC Ventures, today announced that it has been selected as winner of the “Asset Tokenisation Platform of the Year” award in the 10th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organisation that recognises the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market today.
Libeara’s tokenisation technology was utilised by FundBridge Capital, partnering with Mustafa Gold, to launch a secured private credit fund designed to track the performance of gold spot prices and achieve a yield return. The MG 999 On-Chain Gold Fund (the “MG 999 fund”) allows investors to gain economic exposure to the performance of gold without incurring vaulting and other costs associated with holding the physical asset.
Borrowers, comprising gold retailers, pledge their gold inventory as collateral for loans on the fund, unlocking immediate working capital without removing the goods from their inventory. Together, Libeara and FundBridge Capital have worked to ensure the fund’s framework and infrastructure setup meets the standards of a regulated fund environment.
The MG 999 fund offers investors tokenised units, representing a corresponding share of secured private credit loans backed by physical gold collateral. Each token is denominated in grams of gold, with valuations referencing the LBMA gold benchmark, providing a transparent and globally recognised pricing reference. Tokenisation also reduces traditional operational expenditures, such as administrative and regulatory overhead, to preserve more yield.
“This partnership between FundBridge Capital and Mustafa Gold, powered by Libeara, is enabling the restructuring of gold ownership. Traditionally, high-value gold retailers sit on large amounts of inventory that locks up liquidity and incurs high costs for security and insurance. Additionally, institutional investors face incurring storage and insurance costs,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director, FinTech Breakthrough. “The MG 999 On-Chain Gold Fund introduces an innovative, compliant win-win solution for both the investor and the borrower alike. It demonstrates how tokenisation can address inefficiencies in traditional financing structures, supported by Libeara’s robust and well-regulated platform – our pick for ‘Asset Tokenisation Platform of the Year!’”
The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognise the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a wide range of categories, including Digital Banking, Personal Finance, Cryptocurrencies, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and more. The 2026 program represents a milestone year, reflecting a decade of spotlighting the companies driving measurable innovation across the global financial technology ecosystem.
“MG 999 represents our approach to regulated tokenisation, moving beyond digitization to a scalable, compliant infrastructure that enhances transparency, improves capital efficiency, and enables real-world assets to function effectively within modern financial markets,” said Aaron Gwak, Founder & CEO of Libeara. “Thank you to FinTech Breakthrough for this wonderful acknowledgement. We’re proud that our solution is transforming physical gold from an asset weighed down by storage and security costs to one that generates positive yield.”
About Libeara
Libeara is rebuilding capital markets on-chain through its compliance-first approach to the tokenisation of real-world assets. The company is backed by the innovation arm of Standard Chartered, SC Ventures, whose mission is to rewire the DNA of banking. To date, Libeara’s infrastructure has supported the tokenisation of more than US$1 billion in regulated assets —including a top-rated tokenised U.S. Treasury fund and the first tokenised retail money market fund in Asia. With multi-chain interoperability and institutional-grade security and governance, Libeara is scaling access to real-world assets the right way – transparent, regulated, and on-chain.
For more information, visit https://www.libeara.com.
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