Securitize has appointed Jerome Roche, former head of PayPal's Digital Assets Legal division, as General Counsel as it prepares for a Nasdaq listing via a SPAC owned by Cantor Fitzgerald. The listing is expected to value the asset tokenization company at $1.25 billion, trading under the ticker SECZ. Securitize, known for issuing BlackRock's on-chain government bond fund BUIDL, plans to tokenize its equity. Roche emphasized his focus on regulatory compliance and technological innovation in his new role.