Finance & Treasury for OTC Desks & Brokers

OTC desks and brokers run on two things regulators and banks scrutinise hardest: how you handle client orders and where the money sits. Under MiCA your activity maps to specific CASP services — the exchange of crypto-assets for funds or for other crypto-assets, execution of orders, reception and transmission of orders, and placing — each with its own capital and conduct obligations. Lose banking access and the desk stops. HELMS builds the treasury and finance backbone that keeps you trading.

Where OTC desks & brokers get stuck — and where we help

CASP class mapping & capital. We pin down exactly which crypto-asset services your desk provides, the capital tier (Article 67 own-funds) and the cleanest authorisation route. Start with the MiCA Exposure Checker and CASP Jurisdiction Selector.

Banking & settlement redundancy. Lose banking and the desk stops — so we stand up the cross-jurisdiction banking/EMI redundancy and freeze-contingency from our treasury & banking service.

Settlement, reconciliation & treasury. Clean settlement workflows, daily reconciliation of fiat and on-chain legs, counterparty and inventory risk limits, and FX/liquidity management across venues.

AML & Travel Rule. The transaction-monitoring and Travel Rule controls supervisors and banking partners expect from a desk moving size.

Operational resilience (DORA). Trading as an authorised CASP pulls you into DORA — ICT risk, incident reporting and a maintained register; details in the DORA guide.

Why HELMS: senior finance, treasury and regulatory expertise, with legal coordinated through qualified counsel — built for desks that need banking resilience and clean books, not a compliance lecture. If you're choosing where to base, see our jurisdiction comparisons.

Book a 30-min call — we'll map your CASP classes and banking resilience.