HONG KONG, [6th August, 2026]. EVIDENT Group ("EVIDENT"), an SFC-licensed, full-stack platform connecting wealth management firms and their clients with alternative investment opportunities from leading asset managers, today announced the launch of EVIDENT Arc, its advisory practice spanning strategy, structuring, tokenization-as-a-service, and digital infrastructure. Anastasia Nizhegorodtceva joined the firm this summer as Director of Growth and will lead Arc's expansion, working closely with Jessica Ha.

Private markets are being rebuilt in public. Funds are being tokenized, units are settling on-chain, and allocators now expect digital access to assets that used to move on paper. Little of this is really about raising money. It is about how assets are structured, held, administered, and transferred once they exist, and about the infrastructure a firm needs to do that credibly. Most firms can see where this is heading. What they do not have is the licensed perimeter, the technology, and the operating experience to get there without betting three years of roadmap on it. Closing that gap is the job EVIDENT Arc was created to do. And once that gap is closed, firms are far better equipped to run a more successful and future-proof fundraising strategy.

What EVIDENT Arc is

EVIDENT Arc is the advisory and infrastructure arm of EVIDENT. It works with firms preparing for the next era of private markets and carries them from a first idea to a live operation: strategy, structuring, and the infrastructure underneath, with distribution available as an add-on rather than as the point of the exercise.

What separates Arc from a consultancy is that none of its advice is theoretical. EVIDENT runs a licensed marketplace, custody, issuance, and payment rails in production every day. Family offices, funds, and asset managers build on the same infrastructure EVIDENT operates itself, adapted to their assets and their clients.

Arc is built around seven verticals:

01 Tokenization as a Service

Tokenizing an asset is rarely blocked by technology. It stalls on the questions that come before it: does the commercial case hold up, whose regulatory perimeter applies, and what structure will hold up for whoever ends up holding the asset? Getting those wrong is expensive and slow to repair. A structure that cannot be marketed in the jurisdictions that matter, or a token no regulated distributor will touch, tends to reveal itself late, after the legal fees are spent. Arc works through the questions in order, across the legal, commercial, and technical dimensions of the asset.

The work moves through three stages. They run in sequence, but clients can join at whichever stage they need, or take one on its own:

• Readiness and feasibility: An asset-specific business case with cost-benefit and ROI modelling, regulatory scoping across jurisdictions, securities classification, investor profiling, and a clear go or no-go call.
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• Structuring blueprint: Token design that is ready to execute, with SPV choice structured around token-holder rights, debt versus equity mechanics and yield distribution, chain and custody selection, and the reporting and investor-communication model.
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• Execution: Arc stands up the legal, technical, and operational parts of the structure, scoped to anything the client wants EVIDENT to run rather than staff in-house.

Distribution sits outside those core services as an option. Clients that are interested in finding investors through the EVIDENT Marketplace and through distribution partners, including digital asset exchanges and digital asset brokers, can do so with an add-on service. Most of the value, though, is in the structure itself: a digital wrapper that is cheaper to administer, easier to transfer, and open to secondary liquidity.

02 White-label Market Infrastructure

Some firms do not want advice on a single structure. They want to run their private markets business on digital rails, and they want it live this quarter rather than at the end of the decade. Building it in-house means a budget approved on a three-year horizon, technology risk the board has to underwrite, and a launch date that moves every time an integration takes longer than planned.

Getting there alone means running the whole chain: issuing units, onboarding clients, keeping the register accurate, moving money, opening secondary liquidity, distributing digitally, and staying compliant while all of it runs.

In order for this to happen, an asset manager needs a technology stack that usually takes eighteen to thirty-six months to build. And to keep it standing, they would require a permanent team across engineering, security, and compliance. Arc supplies both, together with a licensed perimeter covering dealing, custody, and payments.

EVIDENT holds the regulated, technical, and operational core, while the client holds the investor relationship: a private markets environment carrying their brand, sitting on their domain, serving the investors they onboard, can be live in days rather than years.

• Front of house - what clients and their investors see: their brand, their domain, their assets.
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• Engine room - what EVIDENT runs: identity and security, KYC and KYB, custody of digital units, payment and banking rails, issuance, secondary market access, compliance and audit, and the platform underneath.

How much of that stack EVIDENT runs is up to the client. Some keep KYC, KYB, and investor onboarding in their own hands and take the marketplace, issuance console, custody, payment rails, and platform security from EVIDENT. Others hand identity and onboarding across as a managed service, alongside compliance, risk, and audit. Managed listing, issuance under EVIDENT's licensed perimeter, secondary liquidity inside the EVIDENT network, placement to EVIDENT's client base, and AI tooling a client can offer under its own name are all available as the business grows. Scope is agreed with each client rather than set in advance.

03 AI and Agentic Finance

Everyone in this industry now agrees that agentic finance is coming. Far fewer have a first move. Pilots stall in the sandbox, there is no in-house AI team to hand them to, and nobody can say which process should be automated first. Hiring for it is its own problem: capable AI engineers are scarce, expensive, and difficult to assess when nobody on the interview panel has shipped a model into production. Meanwhile the manual work carries on and its cost compounds quietly.

EVIDENT has been redesigning its own operations around AI and agents, and now is confident to make that capability available to clients. Clients start from systems already running in production rather than funding another proof of concept, and Arc advises on where automation repays the effort first, what stays with a human, and how agents sit inside a regulated workflow rather than alongside it.

04 Bespoke Fundraising

Raising capital pulls a manager away from managing money. Assembling a target list, tuning the story for each type of allocator, and getting in front of the right names is a full-time function most teams cannot justify staffing. Access of that kind is expensive to buy in, and a first raise often burns a year learning which allocators were never going to invest in the first place.

EVIDENT's team spent two decades doing precisely that alongside venture capital firms and hedge funds. Arc shapes the strategy, sharpens the positioning, and prepares the meetings, private events, and roadshows that put managers in a room with qualified LPs, family offices, and institutional allocators. The relationships are already there, so the work starts at the conversation rather than at the introduction. Clients bring EVIDENT in when they want experienced hands on a raise, from first positioning through to the closing conversations.

05 Placement and Distribution

Asia's private-wealth channel is where the growth is, and it is also fragmented and built on relationships. Reaching it unaided takes years of introductions and several intermediaries before a first ticket lands. Every market keeps its own gatekeepers, its own licensing expectations, and its own view of what a credible manager looks like, and none of it is written down anywhere a newcomer can read.

Arc acts as placement agent and advises on how and where a fund or a single asset should go to market, opening a route into that channel through a network that already exists inside a licensed perimeter. Coverage runs across Asia's core and frontier markets alike, so a manager can test appetite in several jurisdictions without standing up a distribution team in each one. This is an option a client can switch on, not a condition to working with Arc.

06 Legal, Regulatory and Advisory

Deciding how to legally structure and comply with applicable regulatory frameworks is where most digital asset projects lose a year. The question is never academic. It determines what rights a tokenholder actually holds, how those rights can be enforced, and how the asset can be marketed. Sending it to a law firm means paying senior hourly rates while someone climbs the learning curve, often in more than one jurisdiction, and the invoice tends to arrive well before the answer does.

Arc answers from structures it has already built and continues to operate, so the starting point is a working precedent rather than a blank memo. Specialist counsel from EVIDENT's network is brought in only where a genuine legal opinion is required, which keeps the expensive hours pointed at the questions that actually need them.

07 Engineering Bench

The alternative to Arc's engineering bench is months of internal development, a hiring round for engineers a firm has to test before it can trust them, and salaries that only make sense at scale. Blockchain and custody specialists are scarce enough that a single hire can take a quarter to close, and the wrong one is costly in both directions. Most clients have no ambition to run a technology team in the first place, and few have anyone in the building who can manage one well.

EVIDENT opens its own bench instead: more than ten specialists across front end, back end, systems architecture, blockchain, and AI, already working as a unit on systems in production. Clients take the scope they need for as long as they need it, and carry neither the headcount nor the management overhead once the work is done.

Who EVIDENT Arc is built for

Arc is deliberately narrow about who it serves. Five kinds of institutions keep arriving at the same set of questions:

Asset managers weighing tokenization: GPs deciding whether to issue digital securities, to modernize how existing vehicles are administered, or to open secondary liquidity on positions they already hold. Arc works the structural, regulatory, and operational questions through with them.

Family offices and institutions designing their own rails: Allocators building internal infrastructure for digital private market exposure, covering custody, administration, transfer mechanics, and reporting.

Legal teams entering the space: Counsel advising clients on digital securities, tokenization structures, or regulatory perimeters, who want context from a firm that operates inside one every day.

Firms launching a venue of their own: Institutions that intend to run a tokenization practice or a digital market for private assets under their own name, without assembling the stack first.

Institutions moving into agentic finance: Firms preparing to deploy AI agents across their operations, drawing on EVIDENT's experience running them live and building the protocols that connect them.

Anastasia Nizhegorodtceva joins as Director of Growth to co-lead Arc

Anastasia Nizhegorodtceva joined EVIDENT this summer as Director of Growth, arriving alongside the official launch of Arc. She takes responsibility for the expansion of the firm's asset tokenization services, its Web3 partnerships, and the wider marketing strategy, with Arc as her primary focus.

Anastasia is a business development and marketing professional with more than a decade behind her at technology companies, most recently in digital assets. Her strength is client relations and commercial growth, built across sustainability and fintech. Thirteen years in the Greater China region and an MBA from National Chengchi University give her both depth in technology and a close read of the market.

Arc is open for conversations now. Firms weighing a first tokenized structure, or a digital market of their own, can reach the EVIDENT Arc team at arc@evident.capital, at whatever stage they have reached.