Apex Group Ltd. has joined the Hedera Council, the body that governs the Hedera public network. The Bermuda-headquartered financial services provider services more than $3.5 trillion in assets. The firm announced the appointment on November 10, 2026. As a Council member, Apex Group will contribute its experience in fund services, digital assets, and institutional market infrastructure to network governance. Apex Group also says it will explore how the Hedera network can support its wider digital asset and tokenization initiatives. Notably, the announcement describes exploration, not a launched product or a named deployment.
📢 Global financial services leader @ApexGlobalGroup has joined Hedera Council. Apex services $3.5T+ in assets and will explore the Hedera network for its tokenization initiatives. What Apex brings to the Council: ✅ Digital assets and institutional market infrastructure expertise ✅ Compliance and trust across the full asset lifecyle ✅ First transfer agent and fund service provider to administer regulated securities on DLT
— Hedera (@hedera) November 11, 2026
What Council membership involves
The Hedera Council governs the network through member organizations that run network nodes and approve core updates. Its members include Fortune 500 companies, banks, Web3 companies, and universities. Hedera’s governance framework allows up to 39 seats, and each member holds equal voting rights. The Council recorded FedEx as its 33rd member in February 2026. Since then, McLaren Racing and Accenture have also joined. The Council says it wants a geographically diverse membership drawn from industries that shape the future, and it says Apex Group’s membership advances that goal. Mance Harmon, who chairs the Council, said Apex Group’s addition strengthens the body at a pivotal moment. In his words, institutional tokenization is moving from experimentation to real-world adoption.
Apex Group’s background in digital assets
Apex Group began in Bermuda in 2003 and now employs more than 13,000 specialists across over 50 countries. The company offers fund structuring, operations, and distribution services to fund managers and institutions. According to the firm, it was an early institutional adopter of digital assets. It also became the first transfer agent and fund service provider to administer regulated securities with distributed ledger technology as the book of record. Apex Group says that work opened global private-market funds to a wider pool of qualified investors. Additionally, the company says its approach rests on one rule: technology must solve a clear business need and deliver tangible value to clients.
Apex Digital 3.0 and the compliance argument
Apex Group connects its digital asset work through Apex Digital 3.0. The company describes it as an all-in-one tokenization solution. Clients can use it to launch, distribute, service, and manage digital and tokenized assets in a single ecosystem. Its capabilities span tokenization, stablecoins, regulated transfer agency, investor identity, proof of reserves, and digital fund servicing. SkyBridge Capital has moved $300 million of its hedge funds onchain with Tokeny and Apex Group, according to Tokeny. Marco A. Infuso, Head of Digital Assets, Central Europe, at Apex Group, framed the approach around compliance. He said institutional tokenization will scale only when compliance runs through the whole asset lifecycle. He added that Apex Group uses ERC-3643, the standard for compliant tokenization, to put that principle into practice.
How the Hedera role fits Apex Group’s wider strategy
Apex Group already builds on other networks. The firm owns a majority stake in Tokeny, the developer behind the ERC-3643 standard, which it acquired in May 2025. In March 2026, Apex Group also announced plans to use the Polygon-based T-REX Ledger as its multi-chain orchestration layer for tokenized funds. The Hedera Council seat adds a governance role on a separate public network. Hedera describes itself as a trusted and auditable network built for asset lifecycle events, compliance attestations, and settlement coordination. Those functions match the lifecycle-focused services Apex Group already sells to fund managers. However, Apex Group has not yet announced which products or funds, if any, will use Hedera. Infuso’s statement also says clients should be able to hold assets in traditional or tokenized form, with consistent standards of control and protection.
What comes next
Apex Group’s seat gives it a voice in decisions that shape the Hedera network, including core updates. The firm has not disclosed a timeline, a node commitment, or a first tokenization project on Hedera. Consequently, the practical effect of the appointment will depend on what Apex Group chooses to build or migrate. The Council, for its part, continues to add members from finance, logistics, consulting, and sport. Apex Group’s addition brings a large fund administrator into that group. Readers can track further announcements through Hedera Council and Apex Group.
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