Settlement Infrastructure for African Institutions
SIDERIS gives African financial institutions access to modern settlement rails — towards Europe, Asia, the Gulf, the Americas, and across Africa itself. Regulator-first. No operational change required.
Market Signal
B2B fintech players have pivoted from retail to corporate flows. They now target your multinational clients, your trade finance volumes, your cross-border treasury — all without a banking license, without your client relationships, and without your regulatory standing.
Every quarter without action is a quarter of corporate flows consolidated elsewhere. Those relationships do not come back.
What SIDERIS Is
SIDERIS is not a fintech. It is not a wallet. It does not issue stablecoins. It is a regulated orchestration infrastructure that gives your institution access to modern settlement rails — while you retain full control of your client relationships, your regulatory standing, and your operations.
Fintech players are fast and cost-efficient. They are not licensed banks. They have no client history. They have no BCEAO credibility. SIDERIS gives you their execution speed and their cost structure. You keep everything they will never have.
"SIDERIS gives you their technology. You keep your advantage."
How It Works
What took 3–8 days and cost 3–7% now settles in seconds, at a fraction of the cost.
Initiated via SWIFT, ISO 20022, API REST, or H2H file. Your existing systems. No modification required.
Automated sanctions screening and AML verification. BCEAO-compliant. Every transaction documented.
SIDERIS selects the best settlement rail at the lowest cost per execution. Automatically.
T+1 execution. vs 3–7 business days with traditional correspondents. Your beneficiary receives fiat.
Immutable execution record. Audit-ready dossier for BCEAO. You have nothing to reconstruct.
The bank never touches crypto. The regulator never loses visibility.
Why It Is Solid
Deployed within your infrastructure perimeter. You retain full control of data, approvals, and execution decisions.
Built for supervised environments. MiCA-compliant on the EU side. BCEAO-aligned on the WAEMU side. No ambiguity before your regulator.
Every transaction produces an immutable, audit-grade record. In the event of a BCEAO audit, SIDERIS produces the complete dossier.
Your institution never holds, touches, or accounts for crypto-assets. You see fiat in, fiat out. We absorb the complexity.
Settlement Network
SIDERIS deploys corridor by corridor, currency by currency — with the same regulated infrastructure, the same compliance discipline, and the same bank-controlled architecture at every stage.
Deployment sequence
One infrastructure. One compliance framework. Deployed systematically across every African currency and its major trading pairs.
Regulatory Framework
SIDERIS operates within the European Markets in Crypto-Assets framework. Execution perimeter defined and supervised.
All settlement activity within the WAEMU zone is structured to meet BCEAO supervisory requirements. Full audit trail provided on request.
SIDERIS holds and is pursuing EU-authorised status as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider under applicable European financial regulation.
SIDERIS operates exclusively between regulated financial institutions. Zero retail exposure. Zero unregulated counterparties.
In the event of a regulatory audit, SIDERIS produces the complete dossier. Your institution has nothing to reconstruct beyond its own perimeter.
Institutional Engagement
If your institution operates in the EUR/XOF corridor or adjacent markets, we are ready to discuss a structured pilot. One corridor. Limited engagement. Defined scope.
SIDERIS engages exclusively with regulated financial institutions. Requests from non-institutional parties will not receive a response.
A member of the SIDERIS team will respond within 48 hours.