Assetera and Deploi Partner to Bring Regulated Private Credit to European Investors

Deploi, the institutional infrastructure layer for Digital Private Credit, today announced a structural shift in the $26 trillion private debt market. By securing ISIN allocations from Nasdaq CSD for its inaugural series, Deploi has activated a Direct Issuance model built on Polygon designed to bypass the opaque, high-fee structures of traditional private credit funds.

The allocations for Series 2026/CON/001 (UK Consumer Credit) and Series 2026/LIT/001 (Litigation Funding) mark the launch of Deploi’s EUR 1 Billion Programme, providing global professional investors with direct access to institutional-grade yield and risk management.

While private credit has become a portfolio cornerstone, it remains plagued by "black box" opacity, high fees, rigid structures, and manual legacy processes. Deploi disintermediates this model not just by offering liquidity, but by fundamentally upgrading the deal lifecycle.

The platform replaces the industry’s "spreadsheet and fee hell" with a high-fidelity infrastructure that delivers:

• Rapid Onboarding:
  Reducing time-to-market from months to days.
• Structural Flexibility:
  A modular framework that adapts to complex deal terms without the administrative drag of traditional vehicles.
• High-End Risk Management:
  Real-time data orchestration that provides transparency and control previously impossible in private markets.

"The legacy private credit fund model is broken because it is operationally archaic,"

said Oskars Jepsis, Founder of Deploi.

"Investors and Lending Partners are tired of rigid structures and slow execution. Deploi offers the speed, flexibility, and institutional-grade risk management the market has been waiting for. We are replacing manual intermediaries with a digital layer that makes private credit not just liquid, but scalable and efficient."

"Private credit has long been inaccessible to most European investors due to structural barriers — high minimums, opacity, and illiquidity. By providing the regulated infrastructure for Deploi's instruments, Assetera removes those barriers while maintaining full MiFID II compliance. This partnership demonstrates precisely what regulated DLT infrastructure makes possible: institutional-grade yield products, compliantly distributed at scale across Europe,"

Thomas Labenbacher, CEO of Assetera.

“Private credit is a massive market, but it still runs on outdated infrastructure. What Deploi is doing with direct issuance and bringing this onchain with Polygon is a clear step toward making these markets more efficient, transparent, and easier to access for institutional participants.”

Marc Boiron, CEO at Polygon Labs

Unlike early-stage RWA projects, Deploi enters the market with significant operational momentum:

• €1 billion digital debt security programme,
  providing global professional investors with direct access to institutional-grade yields in the EU.
• Institutional Demand:
  The firm has secured buy-side interest from major stablecoin issuers and global yield platforms.
• High-Quality Yields:
  Delivering 6–18% returns across diverse asset classes, including mortgages, SME loans, and litigation funding.

Deploi’s infrastructure is built on a foundation of regulated partnerships and multi-chain resilience:

• Licensed Settlement Platform:
  The notes are settled via Assetera, Deploi’s licensing partner and primary settlement platform. Assetera provides the regulated venue necessary for institutional participation, ensuring compliant management of investors.
• Multi-Chain Registry:
  The issuance and digital registry books are anchored across EVM chains, with the first chains to be on Polygon, ensuring high availability, security, and composability within the broader payments ecosystem.
• FX Friction Elimination:
  To support UK-based lenders, Deploi has integrated Tokenised GBP (tGBP) for native settlement. This allows originators to access global capital markets without the 2–3% margin loss typically associated with traditional currency conversion. Deploi’s mission is to support all currencies globally for settlements into digital debt securities.

Looking ahead, Deploi is extending its infrastructure to bridge the gap between decentralized finance and institutional capital:

Canton Network Integration:
Deploi is working with the Canton Foundation, the independent governing body of the Canton Network, to launch capabilities on the Canton Network. Canton is rapidly becoming the standard for institutional DeFi, hosting many of the world's largest financial institutions. Canton’s unique privacy-enabled architecture combines the control over data that institutional wholesale finance needs, with the decentralisation and open connectivity of public blockchain.

About the Deploi

Deploi is a Nordics-based financial infrastructure provider. By removing the need for traditional fund intermediaries, Deploi enables originators in Private Credit lending sectors to issue institutional-grade digital debt directly to global market institutional investors.
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About the Assetera

​​Assetera is the first EU-regulated DLT trading platform for Securities and Real-World Assets (RWAs). Licensed by the Austrian FMA under MiFID II and VASP frameworks, Assetera acts as a regulated infrastructure provider — enabling compliant distribution of tokenized assets and yield-generating products to retail and institutional investors across B2B and B2C channels, in 30+ jurisdictions.
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About the Canton Foundation

The Canton Foundation is the independent governing body of the Canton Network, the privacy-enabled blockchain network built for regulated financial services. The Foundation oversees network governance, ecosystem development, and participant onboarding.
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About the Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is a global blockchain payments company building and operating infrastructure to move money instantly, reliably, and at internet scale, with the mission to move all money onchain. It is building the Polygon Open Money Stack, an open and integrated stack of services and technologies to instantly and reliably move money anywhere, and put it to work. Its infrastructure has facilitated trillions of dollars in onchain value transfer and supported millions of transactions daily for some of the globe's largest banks, fintechs, enterprises, and consumer applications.