SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ:LAES) ("SEALSQ" or "Company"), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today announced that it has acquired a majority equity stake in Wecan Group, following an initial 28% investment made one year ago.

As part of this strategic transaction, SEALSQ will invest CHF 5 million to accelerate Wecan Group's development and support the deployment of next-generation compliance Co-Pilote and post-quantum financial security solutions for the global financial industry.    The investment has been made using the Company's Quantum Fund, SEALQUANTUM.com, an internal strategic investment initiative of SEALSQ using a dedicated allocation of our cash with the goal of accelerating the development of a fully integrated Quantum Vertical Sovereign Stack through investments in carefully selected quantum computing startups in the United States and Europe.

Wecan Group has established itself as a trusted technology provider for leading private banks and financial institutions, with clients including Pictet, Lombard Odier, Edmond de Rothschild, Syz and Barclays, among others. Wecan Group's solutions are designed to help financial institutions streamline client data management, compliance workflows and lifecycle processes in a secure and collaborative environment.

Through this majority participation, SEALSQ and Wecan Group intend to accelerate the implementation of an AI-powered Compliance Copilot, built on a secure post-quantum infrastructure. The platform will integrate advanced Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) technologies, quantum-resistant Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), secure digital identity frameworks and blockchain-based trust mechanisms designed to protect sensitive financial and digital asset ecosystems against future quantum computing threats.

The objective is to provide financial institutions, wealth managers and fintech with a trusted platform capable of optimizing the processing of sensitive client information across the entire client lifecycle, from onboarding to periodic reviews, transaction monitoring, anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) compliance.

The initiative aims to further support the development of:

  • Quantum-resistant authentication and transaction signing for digital banking
  • Trusted AI governance and explainable compliance algorithms for regulated financial institutions
  • Hardware Root of Trust and secure element technologies for financial applications
  • Confidential AI and encrypted data processing leveraging homomorphic encryption and secure semiconductors
  • Quantum-resilient digital identity systems for institutional and retail financial ecosystems



     

In addition, Wecan Group and SEALSQ plan to cooperate closely with SEALSQ's parent company, WISeKey International Holding Ltd ((SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ:WKEY), a global leader in cybersecurity, digital identity and IoT, to integrate the WISeID digital identity ecosystem into financial services and digital asset platforms. This collaboration aims to provide financial institutions and cryptocurrency ecosystems with trusted, sovereign and post-quantum secure digital identity solutions enabling secure customer authentication, compliant onboarding, digital signatures, identity verification and trusted access management across banking, wealth management and blockchain applications.

The integration of WISeID technologies is intended to strengthen compliance and security capabilities by enabling:

  • Post-quantum secure digital identity verification for financial clients
  • Trusted electronic signatures and transaction authentication
  • Secure identity wallets for banking and digital assets
  • Sovereign identity frameworks aligned with global financial regulations
  • Secure onboarding and KYC/AML identity validation
  • Cross-border trusted digital identity interoperability for financial institutions and blockchain ecosystems
  • Hardware-backed authentication leveraging SEALSQ secure semiconductors and WISeKey Root of Trust infrastructure



     

By combining Wecan Group's compliance expertise, SEALSQ's post-quantum semiconductor and cryptographic technologies, and WISeKey's trusted digital identity infrastructure, the partnership aims to create one of the first integrated quantum-resilient trust platforms for the global financial and digital asset industries.