LONDON, July 10 — MBS Global Investments (“MBS”) the investment arm of the Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Nayef Bin Eid Al Thani, chaired by H.E. Marwan Alhajeri, and WS Intimorato Capital Ltd (“WSIC”) the investment and management holding of Mr. Werner Schmidt, today announced the formation of MBS Capital, a strategic joint venture (the “JV”) designed to combine private capital, hard-asset origination, regulated financial services capability and emerging digital infrastructure into one coordinated cross-border execution platform.
MBS Capital is being established with an initial capital base of US$1 billion. This provides the joint venture with immediate scale and a clear execution mandate across its first priority workstreams.
MBS Capital establishes a formal framework through which the parties will originate, structure, finance and execute a select pipeline of asset-backed opportunities. Its first areas of collaboration are expected to include mining and natural resources, institutional-grade gemstone investment, regulated investment banking capabilities and the tokenization of physical hard assets. These initiatives will be developed as workstreams under MBS Capital, with further transaction-specific details to be released separately as each workstream reaches the appropriate stage of execution and disclosure.
The launch of MBS Capital marks the start of a long-term strategic alliance between two principals with complementary capabilities: MBS brings capital formation capability, investment relationships, sovereign reach and institutional finance experience and WSIC brings proprietary hard-asset exposure, industrial and trading experience, structuring discipline and management capacity.
STRATEGIC PURPOSE OF MBS CAPITAL
Through MBS Capital, MBS and WSIC intend to build a combined platform of exceptional scale and ambition, capable of moving high-quality hard assets and other real-world assets (RWA) from private ownership and fragmented markets into more transparent, investable and institutionally governed formats.
MBS Capital will serve as an execution platform combining MBS’s capital network and institutional reach with WSIC’s asset access and technical execution capacity, allowing the parties to pursue opportunities that require both specialist hard-asset expertise and sophisticated financial structuring.
The parties believe that many hard-asset markets – including mining interests, gemstone inventories and other privately held tangible assets – remain under-institutionalized despite their intrinsic value. MBS Capital has been created to address that gap by bringing price transparency, custody, financing and liquidity to asset classes that have historically been fragmented, opaque or difficult for institutional investors to access at scale.
A central part of this ambition is to help create new, institutionally governed money markets around real-world assets (RWA) with tangible collateral, strong strategic relevance, cross-border scalability and clear pathways to capital participation.