Mitsui to provide retail access to digital securities linked to aircraft and ships
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Mitsu offers Japan's first digital guarantees for aircraft and ship fractional ownership through the Alterna platform. Japan's digital securities market will more than double by 2025, driven by expanding use cases and institutional adoption.
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Japanese trading giant Mitsu & Co plans to offer the country's first digital warranty for aircraft and ships, according to a Nikkei report.
The products are issued by Mitsui & Co. It's through Digital Asset Management, which leads Japan in real estate token investment platform Alterna.
The move allows retail investors to gain fractional exposure to capital-intensive assets such as aircraft and cargo ships, with minimum investments starting at 100,000 yen ($630).
Japan plans to double shipbuilding output by 2035, and demand for aircraft is predicted to more than double by 2043.
Mitsu's goal is to quadruple digital securities sales to 100 billion yen by fiscal 2030. The product roadmap includes future offerings for low volatility assets alongside real estate products. The company plans to deploy AI tools to reduce product development time of up to 12 months to just 1-2 months.
Japan's digital securities market is accelerating, with output expected to hit 152.9 billion yen in 2025, more than double that of 2024, according to the report.
Major brokers such as Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities and platforms such as the Osaka Digital Exchange already offer digital securities and are expanding access to secondary and peer-to-peer markets.
