Company

Written in hex. Held under licence.

Hex Trust is a regulated financial institution for digital assets, founded in Hong Kong in 2018 and operating under licence in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. Hex is hexadecimal — the notation every key, address and hash is written in. Trust is a licence we hold.

About

Infrastructure, not a balance sheet.

We hold, trade and move digital assets for institutions, under the licence each activity requires. We are the infrastructure institutions build on — not a balance sheet they take risk against.

2018Founded, Hong Kong
700+Clients onboarded
$5bnAssets under custody attained
$500mMonthly ramping flow
$2bnMoved monthly through our wallets
3Regulated jurisdictions

Where we are

Two hubs, two regional offices.

Operating hubsHong Kong SARDubai, UAE
Regional officesSingaporeHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Leadership

The people who answer.

Leadership team

Alessio QuagliniCEO & Co-founder
Rafal CzerniawskiChief Information Security Officer & Co-founder
Tommaso NataleChief Technology Officer
Giorgia PellizzariChief Product Officer & Head of Custody
Rohit ApteHead of Markets
James HarteCOO & Head of Wealth Management
Gabriele BandiManaging Director Hong Kong, Head of Sales
Federico FabianoHead of Legal & Compliance
Davy LassagneCFO & CEO, Singapore
Marty JettonChief Risk Officer
Man Hay HongDirector, Head of AI Transformation

Board of directors

Rajah ThiyagarajahChairman
Alessio QuagliniDirector & CEO
Rafal CzerniawskiDirector & CISO
Jehan ChuDirector
Mark ChengDirector
Minh DoDirector

Advisory board

Colin BrooksChairman of the Advisory Board
Henri ArslanianMember
Anthony ChanMember
Dave ChapmanMember
Carlo HuerlimannMember

Investors

Backed since 2018.

Strategic and financial investors from digital assets and from the wider market.

Animoca BrandsBCWBorderless CapitalBlockFiCell RisingCyberportCoinListDouble PeakEterna CapitalFenbushi CapitalGenesis BlockHashKey CapitalKenetic CapitalLeadBlock PartnersLiberty City VenturesMantra DAOMind FundMorgan CreekPrimavera Capital GroupProtocol LabsPulsar TradingQBN CapitalRadiant VenturesRippleRZTopazTessera CapitalToken Bay CapitalWintermute

Licences

Licences and registrations.

Hong KongRegistered trust company under the Trust Ordinance, with a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) licence — custody of client assets. Money Service Operator licence — payments and remittance.Custody · Payments
SingaporeMajor Payment Institution licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, covering Digital Payment Token Service and Cross-border Money Transfer Service. Offered under it: digital payment token services, including custody and OTC trading.Custody · Global Markets
DubaiVirtual Asset Service Provider licence from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority — custody services and broker-dealer services.Custody · Global Markets

Audits, insurance and security →

Careers

Work on infrastructure that has to be right.

Engineering, operations, compliance and coverage roles across Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai.

See open roles →

Press

Media enquiries and brand assets.

The mark, the wordmark and the line colours, with usage rules. The mark is 信, the character for trust, written in its code, U+4FE1, and it is never recoloured.

Our mark, the story →Press kit →Press enquiries

Talk to us.

Someone who runs the line, not a queue.