Taurus

Taurus makes digital asset infrastructure for regulated financial institutions. Its site lists banks, neobanks, broker-dealers, market infrastructure operators, exchanges and fintechs among the customer types it serves, and the company says it has more than 40 clients.

The platform has four modules. Taurus-PROTECT holds cryptocurrencies and other digital assets in hot, warm or cold storage, with governance rules that set who can approve each transaction. Taurus-CAPITAL issues and administers tokenized equity, debt and fund shares on public and permissioned blockchains. Taurus-PRIME offers OTC crypto trading, primary and secondary markets for tokenized securities, and crypto futures and options. Taurus-NETWORK is an interbank system for settlement and collateral management between participating banks, exchanges and liquidity providers. Firms can also issue stablecoins and tokenized deposits.

Taurus was founded in 2018 and is based in Geneva. The Swiss regulator FINMA supervises Taurus SA as a securities firm, and a European arm is licensed in Cyprus. The software runs as a managed service, on premise or in hybrid setups, and the company says it has pre-built connectors to more than ten core banking systems, including Temenos, plus links to compliance, staking and market data providers.