SWIAT
Founded: 2022
Products: SWIAT provides a tokenisation platform and blockchain-based infrastructure that enables FIs to issue, settle, and manage digital assets securely and efficiently.
Overview: Founded in 2022 and based in Frankfurt, SWIAT is a fintech developing blockchain-based software to enable an open and decentralised financial market infrastructure. As a blockchain ecosystem provider for financial services (such as banks and asset managers), SWIAT offers a regulatory-compliant blockchain and tokenisation platform for digital assets. It uses an expanding network of validators to collectively ensure the integrity of the blockchain.
The modular platform is built around a need SWIAT saw to address the traditional capital markets’ fungibility and liquidity. It created the SWIAT distributed ledger technology (DLT) network. This is an open and international settlement network that enables users to issue regulated digital assets, including bonds, fund units, and trade receivables.
SWIAT offers a permissioned and private blockchain infrastructure. It supports tokenised bonds, deposits, and repo transactions within its regulated environment. SWIAT also offers interoperability with other networks, such as Kinexys by J.P. Morgan (formerly known as Onyx), and supports decentralised finance approaches where entities may compete to each other while using the same infrastructure. Current client solutions may be connected via API.
SWIAT has onboarded more than 30 FIs and recorded at least 20 transactions totalling more than €600m in transaction volume. As part of the European Central Bank’s digital-ledger technology trials, SWIAT carried out seven of the 15 productive transactions with Deutsche Bundesbank’s Trigger solution, facilitating transfers of funds in central bank money through digital-ledger technology.
In September 2024, SWIAT facilitated a €300m Siemens bond issuance, the largest blockchain-based transaction in Europe at the time, expediting the transaction time to minutes from an average of two days. In April 2025, KfW invested €10m in covered bonds issued by Berlin Hyp under the eWpG framework (the German law related to electronic securities issuance), executed on SWIAT, and with DekaBank as custodian.
For bank and FI users seeking real-time issuance, trading, and settlement of various asset types for corporate clients, creativity is the watchword here.
Clients:FIs, banks, fintechs, corporations
Revenue: N/a
Active region(s): Europe
Partners: N/a
Employees: 33
Funding: Seed Stage
Ownership: DekaBank, LBBW, SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, Comyno
Website: https://www.swiat.io/
Email: [email protected]
TMI view: For bank and FI users seeking real-time issuance, trading, and settlement of various asset types for corporate clients, creativity is the watchword here. Commercial opportunities exist around intraday liquidity management, crypto-securities access, Delivery-vs-Delivery securities exchange, trading between traditional and digital securities, and more.