Aurora Cuadros, Corporate Director of Securities Services at Cecabank, took part in FundsPeople’s second custodian roundtable, where she highlighted the two key strategic drivers that will shape the bank’s roadmap in 2026: international expansion and a strong push towards digital assets.
During her speech, Aurora highlighted, firstly, Cecabank's progress in Luxembourg as a provider of deposit and custody services: “With our branch, fully operational since March 2025, and with an operational model endorsed by the Luxembourg regulator (CSSF), we increased our international presence and expanded the scope of services that we traditionally understood to be involved in our offering as depositaries.”
The second strategic focus is on digital assets, an area in which Cecabank has been developing its capabilities for several years: “Since 2019 we have been training in and working on different initiatives both in the field of MiCA and in traditional tokenised assets”, Aurora noted.
In this context, she highlighted the acquisition of the MiCA licence in July 2025, which makes Cecabank a provider of crypto asset services (custody, order reception and transmission, and transfer): “With the model proposed by Cecabank, we offer our institutional clients the solution to offer their retail clients an initial list of 12 crypto assets to buy and sell, including the main MiCA compliant stablecoins.”
She also noted that the bank has been conducting experiments and sandboxes in tokenisation of traditional assets together with industry leaders and with the participation of supervisors and regulators.
