Congratulations on your win at Global Custodian’s Leaders in Custody awards. What were the contributing factors behind the successful year that led to this award?
We are very pleased to receive this recognition from Global Custodian, especially in a category focused on innovation in digital asset market infrastructure.
We have always believed that digital assets would become part of financial infrastructure and have kept building a platform where tokenised securities and cash are key pillars, not just crypto. Taurus has been building in that direction for years, working with banks and financial institutions globally across the full digital asset lifecycle: issuance and tokenisation, custody, trading, and settlement.
The past year confirmed the direction of the market. Regulation advanced in key jurisdictions, institutions gained more confidence, and banks accelerated programmes across a broad range of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenised securities, tokenised funds, stablecoins, and digital currencies.
That made it a year of important firsts, both for Taurus and for banks using Taurus infrastructure.
Could you outline some of the main achievements and milestones from the year?
There are many, but I would cite three.
On the security side, we released an important paper on post-quantum risk which resonated a lot with peers, clients, and partners. This is a topic we’ve been researching since 2021, and I’m pleased to mention we are PQ-ready and able to accommodate any signature scheme the blockchains will select, including the most sophisticated hash-based ones.
On the product side, Taurus-NETWORK, the world’s first interbank network for digital asset collaboration, was one of the most important milestones. It gives banks a controlled way to work with selected counterparties, manage collateral, coordinate settlement, and automate workflows while keeping assets under their own control through Taurus-PROTECT, our banking-grade custody platform. For clients, the value is immediate. They can reduce operational complexity, strengthen risk controls, and make digital assets more useful for liquidity, collateral, and settlement.
On the client side, several client and partner milestones also showed the strength of global demand. KBC selected Taurus as custody partner for its regulated crypto offering in Belgium, becoming the first Belgian bank to offer crypto trading within a regulated banking framework. Zand used Taurus technology for the UAE’s first regulated AED stablecoin on a public blockchain. ClearBank also selected Taurus-PROTECT for stablecoin-related services, showing the growing demand from regulated institutions across different digital asset use cases.
Our global expansion also played an important role. Taurus now has 14 offices worldwide, including recent openings in New York and São Paulo. That local presence helps us support many ongoing projects with banks and financial institutions, with the right mix of technical, regulatory, and commercial expertise.
How do you plan to build on this success going into the rest of the year and beyond?
We will continue to focus on the real operating needs of banks and financial institutions.
Security remains paramount in our business, and regulators are increasingly strict. Our role is to help institutions that do not compromise on security enter and scale their digital asset activities while maintaining the standards expected in regulated finance, with infrastructure that supports multiple asset classes, jurisdictions, and business models.
Taurus-NETWORK will be central to that work. We will continue developing use cases around distribution, collateral management, settlement, off-exchange trading, lending and borrowing, liquidity workflows, and counterparty collaboration.
We will also continue to strengthen our custody and tokenisation technology, so clients can rely on one infrastructure layer across the digital asset lifecycle. And with our global footprint, we are well positioned to support banks close to their markets as they launch and scale digital asset services.