# Flowdesk

> Flowdesk is a Paris-founded digital asset trading and technology company serving token issuers, exchanges and institutional investors. Its liquidity services, OTC spot and derivatives desks, and credit offering connect fragmented crypto markets through proprietary trading infrastructure. Its original market-making-as-a-service model charges a service fee while clients retain treasury control and bear trading gains and losses.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Paris, France
- **Founders:** Guilhem Chaumont (Co-founder and Global CEO), Paul Bugnot (Co-founder and COO), François Cluzeau (Co-founder), Balthazar Giraux (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Liquidity Solutions, Market Making as a Service, OTC Spot Trading, OTC Derivatives / Flowdesk Prime, Institutional Credit Desk
- **Notable:** Built a recurring-fee market-making offering around client treasury control., Secured an EURCV liquidity mandate from SG-FORGE in December 2023., Added OTC derivatives and institutional credit desks during 2025.

## Products & services

- **Liquidity Solutions** — Market making and liquidity management for token issuers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges and DeFi ecosystems; includes retainer-based and proprietary arrangements.
- **Market Making as a Service** — A fee-based model in which clients supply trading assets and quote-currency collateral, help set strategy, and retain the resulting trading P&L.
- **OTC Spot Trading** — Institutional digital asset execution through a trading desk and connected liquidity infrastructure.
- **OTC Derivatives / Flowdesk Prime** — Derivatives desk launched in January 2025; Prime provides indicative and RFQ pricing, trade execution, positions, margin visibility and analytics.
- **Institutional Credit Desk** — Asset-backed borrowing, digital asset and stablecoin lending, and tailored structured strategies integrated with OTC execution.
- **Tokenized Markets** — Continuous quoting and execution for tokenized assets across centralized venues and onchain markets.
- **Flowdesk AUSD Equity Strategy** — Morpho vault announced with Agora and xStocks; enables borrowing AUSD against SPYx collateral. The announced initial vault cap was $18 million.
- **Ventures** — Strategic capital and trading infrastructure support for digital asset ecosystem companies.

## Achievements

- Built a recurring-fee market-making offering around client treasury control.
- Secured an EURCV liquidity mandate from SG-FORGE in December 2023.
- Added OTC derivatives and institutional credit desks during 2025.
- Flowdesk Europe obtained AMF MiCA CASP authorization A2026-022 on June 25, 2026.
- Flowdesk Omega FZE obtained a Dubai VARA broker-dealer license in August 2026.
- Flowdesk Europe announced ACPR payment-institution authorization on October 13, 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — European entity announced ACPR payment-institution authorization under PSD2 for custody and transfer of e-money tokens, complementing MiCA authorization.
- **2026-09** — Published an explanation of Flowdesk Prime’s institutional OTC derivatives workflow and principal trading model.
- **2026-08** — Dubai entity announced its full VARA broker-dealer license for qualified and institutional investors.
- **2026-06** — European entity received AMF MiCA CASP authorization, with EU passporting rights described as beginning June 30.
- **2026-04** — Introduced a new brand and website to reflect its expansion beyond market making.
- **2026-03** — Announced the AUSD Equity Strategy vault with Agora and xStocks on Morpho.

## Links

- Website: https://www.flowdesk.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowdesk-france
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/flowdesk_co

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Last updated: 2026-10-16