Taurus SA announces it has become a member of Global Digital Finance (“GDF”), a leading global members association dedicated to promoting institutional standards and accelerating the adoption of best practices for digital assets and financial technology sectors. GDF serves as an open innovation platform for digital asset innovators, policymakers, and regulators to develop best practice standards, supported by its membership and community.
By joining GDF, Taurus commits to adhering to the GDF Code of Conduct, which is designed to apply to a diverse set of participants in the digital assets industry, including token issuers, financial institutions, and technology providers like Taurus itself. This commitment underscores Taurus’ dedication to compliance and security in the digital assets space.
“We are thrilled to join forces with Global Digital Finance, especially at a time when GDF is intensifying its advocacy and outreach efforts across key global regions,” said Jürgen Hofbauer, Taurus’ Global Head of Strategic Partnerships. “Taurus is fully committed to contributing to the development of industry-leading governance standards that underpin the broader adoption of digital assets.”
Madeleine Boys, Head of Programmes and Innovation at GDF, said: "Global Digital Finance is delighted to welcome Taurus as a new member of our growing community. Taurus’ expertise in digital asset infrastructure aligns perfectly with our strategic focus areas for 2024, including digital payments, tokenization, and enhancing digital financial market infrastructure."
Global Digital Finance
Global Digital Finance (GDF) is a global non-profit association of member firms offering an open innovation platform for advocating and accelerating the adoption of best practices for digital assets. GDF’s mission is to “To promote and underpin the greater adoption of market standards for the use of crypto and digital assets, through the development of best practices and governance standards in a shared engagement forum with industry, policymakers, and regulators.”
About Taurus SA
Taurus SA is a Swiss FinTech, founded in April 2018, that provides enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, and digital currencies. Taurus is a global leader in the banking segment, entrusted by the full spectrum of financial institutions: systemic banks, universal banks, online banks, crypto-banks, private banks, and broker-dealers. Taurus also operates a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities. Taurus SA is a securities firm supervised and regulated by FINMA. TDX is an organized trading facility operated by Taurus.
About Taurus’ platform and products
Depending on their business model, strategy, and risk tolerance, Taurus' clients can seamlessly manage NFTs, cryptocurrencies, including staking, digitize and tokenize any type of asset on any standard end-to-end, and process digital currencies of their choice. Taurus’ product portfolio is composed of Taurus-PROTECT™, the leading secure storage solution in Europe which is currently used by more than 25 financial institutions and corporations. Taurus-CAPITAL™ allows clients to issue and manage NFTs and tokenized assets on public and private blockchains, as well as interact with any smart contract. The regulated marketplace for digital assets, TDX™, is connected to Taurus-PROTECT™ and Taurus-CAPITAL™. All products leverage Taurus’ blockchain node infrastructure, Taurus-EXPLORER™, which provides a unified API and reliable broadcasting algorithms to interface securely with over 15 blockchain networks. For more information, please visit: https://www.taurushq.com