Custody Firm Taurus Partners With Temenos Bringing Crypto Wallets to Thousands of Banks

Banks that use Temenos core software can now easily create crypto wallets and have exposure to any type of digital assets they want

Updated Dec 18, 2024, 7:24 a.m. UTCPublished Dec 18, 2024, 1:00 p.m. UTC

Swiss cryptocurrency custody specialist Taurus is collaborating with Temenos, a firm that provides core banking software to many of the world’s largest financial institutions, allowing those banks to quickly and easily create crypto wallets and transfer a wide range of digital assets.

This collaboration is important as the Geneva-headquartered Temenos is quite big: the firm has 67 offices in 40 countries and serves over 3000 banks and financial institutions. Taurus, whose crypto custody clients include the likes of Deutsche Bank and State Street, says it is the first digital asset custody platform to fully integrate with Temenos.

The integration means banks using Temenos can avail themselves of one-click crypto wallets that seamlessly connect with traditional accounts, as well as automated deposit, transfer, and withdrawals, and real-time booking, reconciliation and regulatory reporting for digital assets, according to a press release.

“It means banks using Temenos can have exposure to any type of digital assets they want,” Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi told CoinDesk in an interview. “That could be cryptocurrencies, tokenized securities, stablecoins, even memecoins if they wish and their risk department is open to it.”

It’s good timing, Brahimi said, given the imminent arrival of a pro-crypto administration in the U.S., as well as Europe going live with the markets in crypto assets regulation (MiCA).

“Everybody is preparing for regulatory clarity in the U.S.,” Brahimi said. “America is a big market for Temenos and they have a lot of their C suite there. So, we are making ourselves ready, not just in the U.S., but everywhere; hopefully to start in Q1 of next year.”

Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.