One connection to Europe's digital capital markets.

A register kept under national law in which the entry is the security itself. Shares, bonds and fund units can be issued and held there without a paper certificate. Several European countries have created them, each under its own law and each with its own technology. Alongside them, the EU pilot regime licenses trading and settlement venues that keep the same kind of record on distributed ledger technology. We connect to both, and we call them registers and venues.

No. The instruments are ordinary securities: shares, bonds and fund units, issued under national law, with the same rights and obligations as their paper equivalents. What changes is where ownership is recorded. The registers use distributed ledger technology, and German law calls one class of these instruments crypto securities, which is a legal term for a security on such a register and not a crypto asset. Cash settles between the licensed parties as it does today.

Yes, the licensed kind. A share, a bond or a fund unit is issued on a digital register that keeps its record on distributed ledger technology, and the entry in that register is the security itself, under the law of Luxembourg, Germany or the EU pilot regime. There is no paper certificate and no separate record elsewhere; the register is the official one. That is different from a token that only mirrors a security kept somewhere else. DLTBridge connects institutions to those registers. We say digital securities, because that is what they are in law.

It passes and normalises instructions between licensed parties. Your system sends one message format, under your own credentials; we translate it into the format the register uses and return the confirmation. The instruction stays yours. We hold the adapters and keep them current, as your ICT provider. When a register changes, or a new one opens, that is our work: your connection to us does not change, and you reach the new register through the message you already send.

DLTBridge performs no regulated activity of its own. It holds no client money, no client assets and no keys, and it has no relationship with your client. It does sit inside your outsourcing and ICT framework. We will not give an opinion on your own permissions: we bring our written position and the documents your counsel can test it against.

No. The order is placed and confirmed where it is today. What is new is the message that leaves your system and the confirmation that comes back.

That depends on your environment, and we will not put a number on it before we have seen it. What we can say is what the work is: one integration against one specification on your side, and the register adapter on ours. Your engineers get the specification and a test environment first, so they can size it themselves. We then measure it with your people, on a product you already want to launch, and the estimate you both sign is the deliverable. A second register is reached through the message you already send.

Information security follows ISO/IEC 27001 as a management system, control by control, and is designed with a specialist independent of the build. We are not certified, and we will say so until we are. As an ICT third party provider we work to DORA: a contractual annex, a register of information entry, resilience testing and an exit plan. Personal data is handled under the GDPR, the service runs inside the European Union, and we store references rather than raw personal data. Our internal policy set covers information security, access control, change management, secure development, incident response, business continuity and supplier management. Each instruction in and out is logged. The documents are available to your risk team on request.

The first register connections are in build and we are ready for testing with institutions: a first call, a technical assessment, the documentation for your case, then your test system on our test environment. Nothing has been placed through the connection in production yet, and we would rather tell you here than have you find it later. Counterparties are named only with their written consent, and we describe each connection in these words: in build, scoping, in discussion, targeted, planned.