In addition to Europe, Hashdex has a partnership in the US. Photo: Art Rachen.
Crypto assets manager Hashdex announced today (29) that it will expand its service with teams in Europe. The locations will be London, Paris, Lisbon and Zug, where Crypto Valley from Switzerland. The executive Laurent Kssis, who comes from the European financial market and was a director of 21Shares, a Swedish company that is also in Zug and that offers investments in cryptocurrencies and with exchange trading.
According to a statement from the company, Kssis “brings to the manager vast knowledge in the crypto-assets market. In addition, he has the ability to manage and launch exchange-traded products, the Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). According to Hashdex, the executive has already listed more than 25 cryptocurrency ETPs on different exchanges in Europe. In addition, he was CEO of the also Swedish XBT Provider AB, now part of CoinShares.
According to Marcelo Sampaio, Kssis, Switzerland has become the top place to list crypto ETPs. “He will support Hashdex as we accelerate our international reach. And it will help launch institutional-grade products and services, as well as build pathways to connect Swiss and European investors to the crypto economy.”
“We have witnessed unprecedented demand for exchange-traded crypto products,” Kssis said. “We will develop attractive cryptocurrency investment strategies for institutional, private equity and global family office investors across Europe,” she says.
In August 2021, Hashdex announced a partnership with Victoria Capital. At the time, the companies reported that they had filed a request for the launch of an exchange-traded index fund, ETF, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), the SEC.