Debt markets were designed for a different century. We’re rebuilding them.
Direct, regulated credit infrastructure for every bond market.
Every year, governments, corporations, and municipalities issue hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds. This capital funds hospitals, roads, schools, power grids, and the growth of enterprises. It is the lifeblood of the world.
And yet the infrastructure through which this capital flows has not fundamentally changed in half a century.
The machinery of debt finance was built for a different era. We believe it is time to build anew.
A single bond issuance today requires coordination across five or more intermediaries: investment banks, clearing houses, custodians, paying agents, transfer agents. Each operating separate systems. Each extracting their toll.
The friction is immense. The opacity is deliberate. The cost is borne by the issuers who can least afford it.
Founders
Duncan
Griffin
Duncan & Griffin Cock Foster
We have built a billion dollar company before.
We built Nifty Gateway from nothing into the platform that brought digital art to the world. Acquired by Gemini in 2019, it became the foundation upon which a billion dollars in transactions flowed, and through which over five hundred million dollars reached artists directly.
We learned that markets don’t change because someone asks nicely. They change when a better piece of infrastructure makes the old way genuinely obsolete. We built that once. We know what it takes.
We are applying that same conviction to debt capital markets. Because the infrastructure of capital deserves the same rigor, the same ambition, the same refusal to accept that this is simply how things must be.
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If you believe the machinery of debt finance is due for reinvention, we should speak.
You can also email us at duncan@opencharter.co