Onbrane and Agora Digital Markets have merged to create a single platform for debt issuance and management under the Onbrane brand.
Agora provides modelling and lifecycle management automation for digital and traditional debt instruments through its Asset Class Engine (ACE), while Onbrane has completed close to €200 billion in commercial paper issuance.
The merger will enable faster issuance and distribution for dealers, straight-through processing for asset managers and a single debt financing route for issuers, Onbrane stated.
Pascal Lauffer, founder and CEO of Onbrane, commented, “By joining forces with Agora, we are accelerating our journey toward becoming the universal debt issuance platform for the next generation of financial markets.”
Lauffer will continue as CEO of the new holding company. Charlie Berman, founder and CEO of Agora, will be executive chair.
Berman noted, “The same technology that works for the conventional market as it operates today can carry participants through to a natively digital environment, where the instrument itself is created and its whole lifecycle managed digitally. That is the direction the market’s infrastructure is heading.”
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