SIX Digital Exchange Appoints Alexandre Kech as Head Digital Securities to the Executive Team

Alexandre Kech joined SDX in November 2022 as Head Digital Securities. Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC).

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Alexandre Kech joined SDX in November 2022 as Head Digital Securities. Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC). As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets.Most recently, he moved to Switzerland to launch and run Citi Ventures’ Blockchain & Digital Asset team to engage across the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital currencies.

David Newns, Head of SIX Digital Exchange adds “I’m extremely excited to welcome Alexandre to his appointment as Head Digital Securities and part of the SDX Executive Committee. Alex comes with an incredible track record in banking and capital markets, and he will be instrumental in leading SDX’s regulated business as we continue to build the financial markets infrastructure of tomorrow.”

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