Singapore, Singapore–(Newsfile Corp. – October 5, 2025) – Raffles Financial Group Ltd (CSE: RICH) (“Raffles Financial”), a diversified financial services company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, today announced a strategic collaboration with CICADA Finance, a leading on-chain asset management protocol. Together, the two firms will launch the Raffles Reserve Treasury (“RRT”), an innovative digital asset designed to integrate high-growth cryptocurrencies into trade finance credit facilities for IPO-ready firms.
This collaboration bridges traditional corporate finance and decentralized finance (DeFi), creating a unique model for tokenized trade finance. The initiative combines Raffles Financial’s track record in public listings, compliance, and corporate finance with CICADA Finance’s expertise in tokenomics, Web3 asset structuring, and decentralized asset management.
Under this cooperation, both organizations will advance the structuring of tokenized assets, Real World Assets (RWA), smart contract issuance, token circulation mechanisms, settlement systems, and security and risk control frameworks. The goal is to unlock the exponential demand for crypto assets and decentralized financial markets while providing robust, institutional-grade financial products.
The Proposed Raffles Reserve Treasury (“RRT”)
The RRT will be issued through a Singapore-incorporated special purpose vehicle, leveraging Singapore’s progressive digital finance framework. As exemplified by Token2049, the world’s largest cryptocurrency conference, being held in Singapore during the first week of October. The event brought together over 25,000 global crypto-savvy investors to Singapore.
The RRT is designed to serve as a core value carrier, offering governance participation, platform access, and economic incentives to its holders. Inspired by strategies adopted by pioneers like MicroStrategy, Gamestop, the RRT will issue perpetual bond units to fund a diversified Cryptocurrency Treasury (CT) portfolio across assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Solana, and Chainlink.
The CT portfolio will act as collateral for both stablecoin issuance and revolving trade finance credit facilities, ensuring IPO-ready clients can accelerate growth while preparing for North American listings. For investors, this model generates value through arrangement fees and opportunities to buy clients’ IPO shares at pre-IPO discounts.
