Aximetria

Aximetria Swiss financial is a service that provides services for digital assets working with private customers. The company is regulated according to the requirements of the Swiss regulator. The head office of the company is located in Zug (as of January 2022).

History

2024: Red Circle AG bought Aximetria from Tinkoff

At the end of January 2024, it became known about the sale by the Tinkoff group of the Aximetria cryptocurrency service. The new owner of the platform was the Swiss consulting company Red Circle AG.

According to Interfax, citing Aximetria materials, a stake in Aximetria, which was owned by TKS LLC (part of TCS Group), has transferred to Red Circle AG. We are talking about 5347 shares of the service with a face value of 100 Swiss francs (100% of the capital). Financial and other parameters of the transaction are not disclosed.

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Anton Kitsun remained the managing director of Aximetria - as of April 2022, he headed the investment business department of Tinkoff Investments. The Aximetria website indicates by the end of January 2024 that the service has stopped serving customers. When this happened - not disclosed. Tinkoff declined to comment at the agency's request.

Interfax recalls that Aximetria was a member of the self-regulatory organization VQF, which is officially recognized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Aximetria did not have a license from the Swiss regulator. The activity of this company is to provide crypto services for private and corporate clients in Europe, Asia, South America and the CIS region.

Tinkoff planned to develop Aximetria within its global direction in compliance with all the requirements of the jurisdictions of international presence. The Russian group does not name the reasons why it was decided to withdraw from the cryptocurrency asset. Oliver Hughes, taking the position of the head of TCS Group Holding, said that cryptocurrencies are popular as a tool for investments, but the bank cannot offer them to its clients due to the tough position of the Russian Central Bank.^[1]

2022: Acquisition by Tinkoff Group

On January 12, 2022, the international investment company Digital Horizon announced TAdviser the sale (Tinkoff Group Tinkoff Group, TCSGH) of its portfolio company Aximetria Swiss financial , a service for operations with. digital assets Digital Horizon completely withdrew from Aximetria.

Financial details on the deal were not disclosed. However, according to representatives of Digital Horizon, as a rule, in the Russian market, the venture builder invests up to $2 million in portfolio companies and owns a share of 70-80%.

Aximetria will develop as part of the international expansion of the Tinkoff Group in compliance with all the requirements of the jurisdictions of international presence. The details of the transaction are planned to be made public in accordance with the adopted disclosure standards in the Group's annual statements.

2020

As of June 2020, Aximetria ― a Swiss cryptofinance service, the purpose of which ― to provide access to legal and stable crypto-economics for people, regardless of their citizenship, place of residence, level of knowledge about cryptocurrency. Crypto service combines the capabilities of bank card payments and cryptocurrencies. Users can make cross-border payments and transfers, including by phone number, buy and sell currency, store savings. The service works with cards of any banks.

2018: Founding of the company

Aximetria was launched in 2018. The company was founded by Alex Axelrod in partnership with venture builder Digital Horizon.

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