SIX has received approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to merge its digital CSD SIX Digital Exchange AG into SIX SIS AG. This strategic consolidation brings together digital and traditional asset services within a single legal entity and forms the foundation for delivering integrated post-trade services across digital and traditional asset classes.
Additionally, SIX has received FINMA approval to provide crypto custody services through its licensed Central Securities Depository. This marks a significant milestone in the development of regulated institutional market infrastructure for crypto assets.
This new capability enables financial institutions to access crypto custody within the same regulated infrastructure used for traditional securities, providing legal certainty and operational resilience. It forms part of a unified “one plug to two worlds” access model that connects traditional and digital assets and reduces complexity through a single, scalable post-trade environment.,
“Our objective is to provide financial institutions with a unified, secure, and regulated gateway to digital assets,” said Rafael Moral Santiago, Head Securities Services and member of the Executive Board, SIX. “By extending our CSD infrastructure to include crypto custody and integrating digital asset capabilities into our core offering, we combine digital asset innovation with the regulatory certainty and operational robustness of established financial market infrastructure. This milestone represents an important step in our strategy to become a pan-European provider of integrated and digital post-trade solutions by 2030.”
Source: SIX
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