- ISIN CH0011178255
- Country Schweiz
TX Group AG
TX Ventures invests in CLST, an Institutional Digital Asset Lending Venue
Zurich and New York 27 July 2022 – The institutional digital asset lending venue CLST has successfully closed a seed round. The funding round was led by Spartan Group and also included the Tier 1 investors Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Menai Financial Group, Luno Expeditions, and TX Ventures – the VC investment arm of TX Group.
Committed to integrating the traditional market and crypto money market, CLST fosters the institutional gateway for collateralized and uncollateralized lending.
CLST offers institutions safe exposure to the growing, global digital asset marketplace via the borrow and lend proces. As a one-stop-shop for peer-to-peer lending, CLST attracts digital asset lenders and borrowers such as hedge funds, trading firms, treasuries, market makers, and crypto banks seeking automated digital asset collateral management features. With its “one click” financial data sharing, lenders and borrowers can accurately and efficiently evaluate their pending relationship pre-trade, ultimately mitigating the risk associated with lack of counterparty risk assessment in the lending industry. Automation and security in collateral management, combined with counterparty risk assessment are the key pillars of CLST.
By capitalizing on the recent immaturity of the crypto debt market which led to the financial distresses of market leaders, CLST is effectively automating bilateral price negotiation and settlement for the unsecured and collateralized short-term debt market. With more than 30 institutions participating in the network after soft launching earlier this year, CLST is going live with a wide market version of the application later this year.
Michael Guzik, founder and CEO of CLST: “CLST sits at the nexus of the crypto asset short-term debt market and traditional financial market. In tandem with our world class investors and partners, we are establishing a market for stablecoins, digital assets, fiat, and beyond – the ‘new money’. With the new funding, CLST will bolster its peer-to-peer infrastructure through increased operational and market expansion, ultimately creating an ease of lending that has not yet been made possible between institutional entities, until now.”
Leeor Groen, Director at Spartan Group: “With the current market environment exposing points of failure, it is clear that the crypto industry needs a better way to manage liquidity and counterparty risk as it continues to mature. We are glad to back the CLST team as they launch the leading platform to facilitate both institutional borrowing and lending as well as treasury management solutions for digital asset market participants.”
Krzysztof Bialkowski, Investment Director at TX Ventures – the VC investment arm of TX Group: “We are excited to add CLST, an innovative crypto lending company, to our FinTech portfolio and to support the team in their growth journey going forward. The recent developments in the market have shown the urgent need for further professionalization and structuring in this highly attractive segment. CLST has showcased strong initial traction and is well positioned to create value in the crypto market. We therefore strongly believe that the CLST team will succeed in becoming a game changer in the institutional crypto lending ecosystem.”
CLST
Barbara Caldova
bara.c@clst.com
TX Group
Karole Verlage Frei, Senior Communications Specialist TX Group
karole.verlagefrei@tx.group
About CLST
CLST is the institutional communications venue to lend or borrow stablecoins and crypto assets, automating multi-dealer price negotiation and price matching for institutional lenders. CLST Markets integrates next generation features such as automated collateral management, counterparty risk assessments, interest rate benchmarking, blockchain-based electronic promissory notes and wallet connectivity for automated settlements. CLST aims to resolve market uncertainties and scaling issues in uncollateralized and collateralized lending and borrowing of stablecoins and crypto assets.
www.clst.com
About TX Group
The TX Group forms a network of platforms and participations that offers users information, orientation, entertainment and assistance for everyday life on a daily basis. Its roots lie in journalism with the diverse newspapers of Tamedia and the free media of 20 Minuten. The portfolio is complemented by the advertising marketer Goldbach. The TX Group is an anchor shareholder of the SMG Swiss Marketplace Group and JobCloud, holds majority stakes in Doodle and Zattoo and is an investor in the fintech sector through TX Ventures. The portfolio of TX Ventures includes the minority stakes in the platforms Everon, Helvengo, Lend, Lykke, Monito, Neon, PriceHubble, Selma Finance and Stableton. In addition, TX Ventures is invested in Backbone, Helpling Switzerland and Picstars. Founded in 1893, TX Group has been listed on the Swiss stock exchange since 2000.
www.tx.group