Taurus, a regulated securities firm, is pleased to announce that TDX, its digital asset organized trading facility, and its financial services at large are now open to retail clients following FINMA approval.
In addition to professional clients, retail clients can now “create an account and trade digital assets and tokenized securities.”
Taurus also announces a new list of issuers “that selected TDX as a preferred venue to trade their digital securities, including well-known Investis Group, la Mobilière, Qoqa, SCCF, Swissroc, and Teylor.”
Taurus—which claims to be a leader in digital asset infrastructure for banks and corporates—announces “the full opening of its financial services and TDX marketplace to retail clients, after it received regulatory approval from FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.”
This approval demonstrates again Taurus’ robust organization, technology, and processes, and its pioneer role “in the digital assets industry.”
Retail, professional, and institutional investors “can now access and trade the full spectrum of digital securities accepted on TDX in a secure and compliant manner.”
Transactions can be conducted “using various fiat currencies, including Swiss franc (CHF), Euro (EUR), and US dollar (USD).”
The opening of the TDX marketplace “to retail clients brings several benefits to the market,” both for issuers and investors:
- Companies can now access primary and secondary markets, with both retail and professional investors, enhancing the liquidity of digital securities. They can have their own trading segment, with custom liquidity schemes through auction-based or continuous trading markets and raise capital efficiently. Companies can manage their digital securities in real time and create a participation plan with just a few clicks;
- Retail investors who participated in capital raises can now seamlessly trade digital securities on a user-friendly and secure platform. This marks a major progress for this investor category;
- Professional investors will continue to trade as they used to do, but with more liquid markets and participations.
Taurus has spent years preparing for “the opening to retail clients, focusing on a seamless launch and user journey.”
This ensures that market participants enjoy “the best possible experience, while staying compliant with regulations and adhering to security best practices.”
To do so, Taurus has “appointed Mr. Yann Isola as TDX Head of Product, responsible for designing and implementing the TDX platform across all types of customer segments. Mr. Isola is an industry veteran with 15 years’ experience building trading platforms and joined Taurus in October 2023.”
Taurus is also announcing that it is “admitting for trading new tokenized assets from renowned Swiss companies that have selected TDX as their preferred venue. These issuers include Investis stock-listed real estate Group, la Mobilière, Qoqa, SCCF Structured Commodity & Corporate Finance, Swissroc real estate Group, and Teylor.”
Yann Isola, TDX Head of Product, said:
“Our core belief at Taurus is that private markets 2.0 shall be digitized, so that buying a private security becomes as easy as buying a book on Amazon. The growing demand for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, the fastest growing market segment in the digital asset space, validates this belief.”
Unlike other existing digital asset exchanges—both centralized and decentralized—Taurus has created with TDX a marketplace, “wherein retail, professional, and institutional clients can trade any digital assets, including securities, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.”
