Compass Financial Technologies
Compass Financial Technologies is an index services provider that designs, calculates and publishes indexes for multi-asset, commodity and digital asset strategies. Product issuers license these indexes for exchange-traded products and structured products. The company was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, and built its index calculation platform over eight years.
MSCI announced the acquisition of Compass on 3 March 2026 and reports the business in its Index segment. Guillaume Le Fur is the chief executive of Compass Financial Technologies, and Jana Haines, head of index at MSCI, called Compass a trusted partner of MSCI.
Crypto and DeFi indexes
Compass calculated crypto and DeFi indexes, among them a DeFi index that complies with the EU Benchmarks Regulation and is live on Bloomberg and LSEG. With CoinShares it created the CoinShares Gold and Crypto Assets Index, which combines gold with a basket of crypto assets in one benchmark.
MSCI crypto indexes
MSCI said that the deal adds commodity and cryptocurrency index capabilities to its equity and fixed income indexes. Compass already calculated several MSCI indexes, and the deal brings this work inside MSCI. The financial terms were not disclosed and are not material for MSCI.
Benchmark administration in Europe
Compass works as a benchmark administrator under the EU Benchmarks Regulation, so issuers in the EU can use its indexes in regulated products. A Swiss or EU issuer that builds a crypto ETP needs such an administrator to publish the index rulebook and to control conflicts of interest.
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Who owns Compass Financial Technologies?
MSCI owns the company after the acquisition announced on 3 March 2026, and it reports Compass in its Index segment.
What does the company calculate?
Compass calculates multi-asset, commodity and digital asset indexes, including crypto and DeFi benchmarks that issuers license for exchange-traded products.
Where was Compass founded?
Compass Financial Technologies was founded in Lausanne in Switzerland, and its index platform serves issuers in Europe and beyond.
Compass Financial Technologies and Finance Loop
Index providers decide what a crypto ETP holds, which makes them part of the Finance Loop track Investment & Digital Assets. Compass is one of the crypto price feed providers close to the Swiss and European ETP market, where Finance Loop connects people in Frankfurt, Zurich and Lausanne.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.