Cecabank drives the custody in the field cripto with the activation of its platform of custody of criptoactivos for financial institutions, accompanying to Income 4 Bank in the development of its purchase and sale agreement offer of criptoactivos for clients
The service leans on the collaboration with Bit2Me, partner that complements the proposal with its execution platform and its expertise in markets cripto
The Iberian leading bank in Securities Services moves its extensive experience, its operating capacities and technological and its highest standard of the traditional business to the digital assets
Cecabank starts its custody service of criptoactivos for financial institutions, accompanying to Income 4 Bank in the development of the offer of services of purchase and sale agreement in the field cripto. Cecabank, leading bank in Securities Services on the market Iberian and performance benchmark in treasury and payment services, moves thus its extensive experience, its operating capacities and technological and its highest standard of the traditional business to the digital assets.
The service is articulated within an ecosystem in which Cecabank gives the technological infrastructure and assumes the institutional custody of the criptoactivos, spreading its traditional model of postcontracting custody and services to the field of the digital assets. For the execution of purchase and sale operations, the company leans on Bit2Me, partner specialised in digital asset exchange, Supplier of Services of Criptoactivos (PSC) in accordance with the Regulations (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) and with which maintains a strategic alliance from May 2024.
This landmark supposes the implementation of a project developed in recent months, after the acquisition by Cecabank of the licence for the provision of services of criptoactivos, that covers custody, reception and transmission of orders (RTO) and transfers. The placed one in production confirms the skills of Cecabank to operate in a fully regulated environment, in line with the new European frame MiCA.
The solution developed together with Bit2Me combines the experience of Cecabank in securities and compliance with standards services with the technological skills of Bit2Me, that contributes the platform of execution, liquidity and access to the market, allowing to the financial institutions access services of criptoactivos in a fast way, sure and efficient.
The model reduces the operational complexity and technological, leaning on an already operational infrastructure and validated, and low standards equivalent to those of the traditional business of securities. In particular, integrates the operations of purchase and sale agreement of criptoactivos, the real-time access to market and skills details advanced of execution, together with an infrastructure of custody sure. Similarly, the platform has been developed low a fully aligned approach with the regulatory requirements, adding tall cybersecurity standards and compliance.
The proposal of value of Cecabank contemplates an all-inclusive service that covers all the value chain and allows to the companies offer to its final customers the purchase and sale agreement of an initial universe of criptoactivos that includes the principals stablecoins adapted to the European regulatory framework.
From a strategic point of view, this initiative strengthens the stance of Cecabank as a supplier of reference for the financial sector in the field of the digital assets, acting as a point of connection between the traditional banking and the ecosystem cripto. The consolidation of the regulatory framework and the increasing institutional interest are driving the forward integration of these assets in the offer of financial services.
Besides the licence MiCA given by the CNMV in July 2025, that it turned to Cecabank in the first guard B2B with this authorisation, the bank is the only financial institution that in Spain has the enrollment in the record of the Banco de España as a supplier of services of criptoactivos (CASP) from November 2024. Cecabank has initiated similarly the process of European passport to spread these services in the markets of Ireland, Portugal and Luxembourg.
In Aurora's words Cuadros, corporate director of Securities Services of Cecabank: “As a supplier of reference in services of custody in the traditional field, in Cecabank give a natural step when moving our experience and our standards to the world of the digital assets. With the model that we have developed, based on an ecosystem with suppliers of first level on a global scale, are accompanying to our clients —como Income 4 Banco— in this process, offering them an all-inclusive solution so that they can offer its final customers services of purchase and sale agreement of criptoactivos with the over-collateralisation ” to which it has added: “In addition, provide to the companies the incorporation of these services without assuming the operational complexity and technological, in a fully regulated environment that strengthens the security and the confidence to move forward in the field of the criptoactivos”.
For Gabriel Ayala, Banking Solution director of Bit2Me, “the activation of the service with Cecabank and Income 4 Bank is a step more in the consolidation of the model that we come building: infrastructure cripto of institutional degree, integrated in the workflows of the traditional banking and under the frame MiCA. For Bit2Me, alliances as this confirm that Spain is leading the actual integration of digital assets in the European”financial sector.
