SBI Digital Markets and CAT Financial Products announce strategic partnership

SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM) in Singapore and CAT Financial Products AG (CATFP) in Zurich today announced their partnership to establish a strategic manufacturing and distribution channel of structured investment products between Asia and Europe. The collaboration between both regulated financial companies aims to leverage the combined expertise, global reach, and leading technology of two industry experts.

Through the partnership, SBIDM and CATFP aims to enhance the financial landscape and meet the growing demand for sophisticated investment products. By combining their extensive distribution networks and strengths, both companies will benefit from the constantly evolving financial markets to offer institutional investors a diverse range of structured financial products designed to meet the specific needs and preferences of investors across the regions.

Through the partnership, SBIDM and CATFP will both unlock an expanded distribution network in Europe and Asia. As a subsidiary of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, the digital asset arm of Japan’s leading conglomerate SBI Group — with the largest securities account customer base and second-largest trading market in Japan — SBIDM brings strong network expansion opportunities to the partnership.

CATFP, known for its issuance and distribution capabilities for structured products and actively management certificates in Switzerland, has years of experience in the manufacturing and distribution of financial products. Through the collaboration, SBIDM will gain access to CATFP’s robust price discovery and lifecycle management platform CUGLOS.

By integrating these services into SBIDM’s own financial product platform, clients will benefit from real-time pricing information for structured investment products while allowing them to track and manage all outstanding products seamlessly. This ensures a comprehensive and efficient approach to serving its investors throughout the entire life cycle of the products. Furthermore, SBIDM will benefit from CATFP’s issuance platform for actively management certificates, exchange-traded products (“ETPs”), thematic tracker certificates, leveraged products and the ability to securitize semi-liquid or illiquid assets.

Both companies are actively working on integrating the issuance capabilities and CUGLOS platform into SBIDM’s operations, and the first structured products are expected to be rolled out in Switzerland, Europe, and Asia in the coming months.

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