Taurus SA, a Geneva-based digital asset infrastructure provider for over 40 banks including State Street, Santander, and Deutsche Bank, has received a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) investment company license from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). The license, granted to its EU subsidiary Taurus (Europe) Ltd, makes Taurus the first pure institutional digital asset infrastructure platform to operate as a regulated investment firm under MiFID II, ahead of the July 1, 2026 deadline for the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation.
The authorization permits Taurus to offer a full suite of regulated services for tokenized financial instruments — including bonds, fund shares, equities, and structured products — across all 27 EU member states plus the wider European Economic Area. This encompasses issuance, custody, and secondary market trading within a compliant framework. Unlike standard crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) that focus on retail, Taurus can now operate directly within the traditional financial services landscape, giving institutional clients legal certainty and cross-border passporting rights.
Taurus’s Managing Partner and co-founder Sébastien Dessimoz called the license “an important step in our European strategy,” noting it would support EU-based companies in scaling tokenized and digital asset operations. The license also positions Taurus to benefit from the rapid growth in tokenized capital markets, which industry reports project could exceed $10 trillion globally by 2030. With many crypto firms in France and elsewhere still unlicensed, CySEC’s strict AML and KYC enforcement strengthens Taurus’s competitive edge.
The regulatory milestone complements Taurus’s recent partnership with Parfin in Latin America and its entry into the U.S. market, underscoring its ambition to build a global compliant infrastructure for institutions. As banks and asset managers move from pilot projects to full-scale tokenized asset deployment, Taurus’s integrated approach — combining technology, custody, and now regulated trading — offers a one-stop solution under EU law.
