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Kantox

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Corporate FX is one of those areas of finance where the gap between what companies pay and what they theoretically should pay has been stubbornly persistent. Banks have traditionally offered corporate clients FX services with pricing that reflects the bank's margin far more than the underlying market rate — and for companies without the treasury infrastructure to push back, those costs accumulate quietly. Kantox was founded in Barcelona in 2011 to fix that. Its Dynamic Hedging platform automates FX risk management for multinational companies, connecting directly to treasury systems and executing hedges in real time based on predefined rules rather than periodic manual decisions. The product removes both the cost of bank intermediation and the human error and delay that characterise manual FX management. Kantox was acquired by BNP Paribas in 2022 — an outcome that reflected both the value of what it had built and the strategic importance of automated treasury tools to a major corporate bank. The acquisition made BNP Paribas one of the few tier-one banks with genuinely sophisticated automated hedging infrastructure, and gave Kantox the distribution and balance sheet to scale across a much larger corporate client base.

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Quick facts
Founded
2011
Founders
Philippe Gelis|Toni Rami
Employees
50-200
Users
Business model
B2B
Target customers
Enterprises|SMEs
Notable clients
BNP Paribas
Geographic focus
Southern Europe
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