# KXCO Corporate The company behind the software: KXCO by Knightsbridge Group, incorporated in the UK and the US. Registers, standards alignment and the people involved. Canonical HTML: https://kxco.ai/corporate Last modified: 2026-09-02 --- Corporate # Built by Knightsbridge Group. For institutions that have to prove it. KXCO is the software company of Knightsbridge Group. The group has operated since 1987, with presence in Bangkok, Doha, Paris and London. KXCO builds post-quantum infrastructure for corporates, licensed institutions and AI agents. Every product runs on Armature L1. Every material claim is independently verifiable. The UK company on file is Knightsbridge Financial Ltd, England & Wales, Company No. 15684975, incorporated 27 April 2024. LEI 213800TMP5DQFDKOZ549. ICO registration C1961692. Group counsel is Knightsbridge Law. KXCO does not custody assets and holds no financial licence. Request a briefing → Talk to KXCO AI → BlackRock Fidelity DTCC Bear Stearns Capgemini Leadership and advisory experience includes people who have worked at BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, DTCC, Bear Stearns, Capgemini, and Knightsbridge Group. Those names describe rooms our advisors have sat in. They are not clients, not investors, and not endorsement marks. Leadership & Advisory ## The team behind the infrastructure. Founder & Chief Executive Officer Shayne Heffernan Ph.D. Knightsbridge Group · Est. 1987 · Bangkok · Doha · Paris · London Economist with 40 years in global capital markets, with an Asia-Pacific focus. Founder of Knightsbridge Group (1987) and KXCO. Group context includes selection for the EU Commission Blockchain Sandbox in 2025. The conviction that post-quantum cryptography must become the foundational layer of financial infrastructure, not a retrofit, is the organisation's reason for existing. KXCO builds the infrastructure regulated institutions will need to meet post-quantum migration obligations, on architecture that will still be valid when quantum computers become cryptographically relevant. Strategic Advisor, Capital Markets Steve Chaykowsky 15 years proprietary trading and banking. Technical market advisor for Mellon Bank, BlackRock, and JP Morgan Asset Management. Top 10 Visionary Leaders 2026. Strategic Advisor, Financial Services Technology Dan Frasco 20+ years at Fidelity Investments in technology and infrastructure leadership. Modernised DTCC core clearing supporting $1.4T in annual clearing. BA Computer Science & Economics, Williams College. Senior Advisor, Asia Pacific & Digital Assets Vincent Song Vice Chairman, Hong Kong Blockchain Association, a current role. Prior offices: Global VP at XT.COM, scaled to 9M users and $1B+ daily volume; Director, Lenovo-IBM Asia Pacific. Strategic Advisor, Investment Banking & Blockchain David Chlapowski Serial entrepreneur. Former Senior Vice President at Bear Stearns with extensive Wall Street investment banking experience. Expertise in cloud infrastructure and digital forensics. Strategic Advisor, Technology & Enterprise Lanny Cohen Former CEO North America, Group CTO, and Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini. Vice Chair and Chief Portfolio Officer at iByond. Former Partner at EY. Strategic Advisor, Fintech & Legal Grant Leech 20+ years building and leading fintech businesses. Law Degree, Higher Diploma in Computer Science, Graduate Diplomas in Finance & Accounting. Led M&A strategy across UK and Ireland. Strategic Advisor, Cybersecurity Sean O'Coiligh 30+ years in cybersecurity. Founded the Pen Test Managers Group at FS-ISAC. Prior offices: led Offensive Cyber Security at DTCC's Cyber Threat Fusion Center for over a decade; U.S. Marine Corps, Signal Intelligence. Strategic Advisor, BlackRock & Sovereign Capital Ramadan Ameen Former Relationship Manager, BlackRock, Official Institutions Group. Raised $1.3B from sovereign wealth funds, central banks, and pension funds. MBA, Columbia. Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Architecture Martin Etlis Oracle. EY. Deloitte. PA Consulting. Delivery lead for Nordea and Svensk Exportkredit. CEO, Creavi Holding AB. About KXCO ## Post-quantum infrastructure built for institutional deployment. KXCO is a UK and US software company. It builds post-quantum infrastructure for institutions that require long-term cryptographic security, not as an upgrade to schedule for later, but as a structural property of every system deployed today. The company was founded on a single premise: the institutions that begin deploying quantum-resistant infrastructure now will complete that transition on their own terms. Those that delay will face an emergency response under regulatory pressure, with less time and less control. KXCO does not provide custody, hold assets, or operate as a licensed financial institution. It builds the software layer that licensed institutions deploy to meet their own obligations. The infrastructure is the product. The institution is the operator. The Armature L1 blockchain, the PQC Hosting and Bastion scanning platform, KXCO Meridian, KXCO Verified, and the KnightsVault white-label banking infrastructure are all built on the same post-quantum cryptographic foundation, NIST FIPS 203, 204, and 205. Every signature, every credential, every deployment attestation uses ML-DSA-65 and is anchored permanently to Armature L1. There is no retrospective migration path on KXCO infrastructure. The post-quantum security is architectural, present from the first operation, and independently verifiable by any third party. Knightsbridge Group, established in 1987 with operations across Bangkok, Doha, Paris, and London, provides the institutional foundation and capital markets experience from which KXCO was built. Architectural Security Post-quantum built in from the first operation. NIST Standards 203 / 204 / 205 Built on the ratified post-quantum standards. Verifiable 100% Every action cryptographically verifiable on Armature L1. Global Operations UK & US Headquartered in the UK and US with global reach. Institutional Foundation 1987 Built on nearly four decades of capital markets experience. Corporate & Institutional Case ## The cost of waiting is increasing. Quantum migration is no longer a technology decision. It is becoming a governance, compliance, and risk-management decision, and the data being signed today may outlive today's cryptography. Long-term contracts Agreements signed today may outlive today's cryptography. Board resolutions, supply agreements, custody arrangements, and financial contracts often remain enforceable for decades. KXCO provides ML-DSA-65 signing for records with multi-decade validity, from the moment they are created, not as a future upgrade. Audit & compliance Evidence must survive organisational change. Audit records should remain independently verifiable regardless of vendor changes, mergers, or infrastructure migrations. KXCO anchors records to Armature L1 , permanently stored and verifiable without any KXCO-controlled system remaining available. Harvest now, decrypt later Sensitive information is already being collected. State actors and sophisticated adversaries are capturing encrypted data today for future decryption, documented by the NSA, NCSC, and equivalent agencies. Data that must stay confidential for years should be post-quantum from creation. AI agent risk Autonomous systems require verifiable identity. As AI agents begin transacting and signing on an organisation's behalf, they need an identity verifiable without a central server. KXCO issues ML-DSA-65 agent credentials anchored on Armature L1 , checkable by any counterparty, at any time. NIST Standards 203 / 204 / 205 Post-quantum standards for signatures and key establishment. US Federal Deadline 2035 Deadline for agencies to implement post-quantum cryptography. Years 25+ Typical record retention for contracts, audits, and regulated data. Trust Required 0 Trust is not assumed. It is cryptographically proven. Regulatory Alignment ## Built for the standards institutions must meet. NIST, the G7, and the NSA have transformed post-quantum migration from a future project into a present-day obligation. KXCO's cryptographic baseline is built to satisfy it from day one. 2024 NIST Standards FIPS 203, 204, 205 published as final standards. 2026 G7 Roadmap G7 Cyber Expert Group issues a formal migration roadmap. 2030 NSA CNSA 2.0 CNSA 2.0: post-quantum signing mandatory for national security systems. 2035 Federal Deadline US federal agencies must complete post-quantum migration. 2030+ Quantum Window Harvest-now-decrypt-later risk becomes operational at scale. 2035 Classical End State Classical cryptography retirement accelerates globally. Standards aligned Built on NIST FIPS 203, 204, and 205. Not planned. Not roadmap. Operational today, institutions deploying KXCO operate on a compliant foundation from the first transaction. NIST FIPS 203, ML-KEM (key encapsulation) NIST FIPS 204, ML-DSA (all signing operations) NIST FIPS 205, SLH-DSA (stateless hash-based signatures) No rip-and-replace Deploy as a software layer. Existing financial infrastructure remains intact. KXCO adds post-quantum signing, identity, and audit to current operations, software-only, no hardware dependency. Integrates with existing infrastructure Software-only deployment, no hardware dependency Compliance reports ready for regulatory submission Migration ready Assessment, deployment, and compliance reporting. Built for regulated environments and built for audit. Migration advisory engagements are available now, begin the assessment and complete migration on your own schedule, before enforcement begins. NIST Standards 203 / 204 / 205 Adopted by US federal agencies. Federal Deadline 2035 US federal agencies must be post-quantum ready. Financial Sector Roadmap G7 Coordinated guidance across G7 nations. Hardware Dependency 0 Software-only architecture. No rip-and-replace. Next Steps Engage KXCO for your institution. Whether you are assessing post-quantum migration risk, evaluating infrastructure for a regulated deployment, or building AI systems that require verifiable on-chain identity, the conversation begins with a direct engagement. Contact KXCO → Talk to KXCO AI → Structure ## How the pieces connect. Stated once so it is never inferred. The group is not the filed company, and neither is a licence. Knightsbridge Group — the 1987 operating context. Capital markets presence across Bangkok, Doha, Paris and London. KXCO — the software company of the group. Builds Sentinel, Meridian, Treasury, the ontology, PQC Host, Bastion and KXCO Verified. Armature L1 — permissioned record with instant finality and on-chain ML-DSA-65 verification. chain.kxco.ai → Knightsbridge Financial Ltd — the filed UK entity, England & Wales, Company No. 15684975 , incorporated 27 April 2024. LEI 213800TMP5DQFDKOZ549 . ICO C1961692 . Member of the PKI Consortium. Runs its own book on Meridian as a Member, not as the house. Knightsbridge Law — group counsel, inside the group rather than a hired panel. Outbound mail signed with ML-DSA-65. Access and engagement: shayne@knightsbridgelaw.com . Knightsbridge Advisory — capital formation and cross-border institutional work, London and Doha. Sister efforts in the same group context: KnightsVault (white-label rails, in beta), CareCredits and Target150. Sister efforts, not Sentinel features. KXCO holds no financial licence and does not custody assets. Licensed institutions that deploy the software hold those relationships. Who We Sit With ## Rooms a stranger can look up. Working groups first. Developer programmes are memberships, and are named as such. Working groups and standards 01 PKI Consortium — member, Knightsbridge Financial Ltd. Working groups PQC, CBOM, CM, PKIMM, TCWG. pkic.org/members → 02 CSA Quantum-Safe Security Working Group — member. Cloud Security Alliance → 03 DIF / Linux Foundation — contributor member M-018609, to 26 August 2027. identity.foundation → 04 CoSAI / OASIS Open — participant from 26 August 2026. coalitionforsecureai.org → 05 IETF LAMPS — participant. IETF datatracker → 06 NIST FIPS 203 / 204 / 205 — implemented in production. NIST ACVTS credentials active. Not a NIST certification of the firm. NIST FIPS 204 → Developer programmes — member, not partner 07 IBM Quantum Network — member. 08 NVIDIA Developer Program — member. 09 Visa Developer Program — member. Circle (USDC) Developer Program — member. 10 xAI Developer Program — member. Palantir Developer Program — member. What a verifier can look up in five minutes Companies House 15684975 → · GLEIF 213800TMP5DQFDKOZ549 → · ICO C1961692 → · PKI Consortium member directory → · report verify at pqc.kxco.ai/verify → · public key at /.well-known/kxco-pq-pubkey → · patent pending Ireland S2025/0544 (Grant Leech, John Heffernan, Shayne Heffernan) · vulnerability disclosure under RFC 9116 security.txt → Developer Programs NVIDIA , Developer Program member Circle , USDC developer program member Visa , Visa Developer program member xAI , developer program member IBM , Quantum Network member Palantir , developer program member ## Trust & Compliance Registered, verified, and standards-aligned, independently checkable. ICO · UK GDPR Data Controller Registered Ref: C1961692 · Data Protection Act 2018 · Knightsbridge Financial Ltd Verify at ICO → GLEIF · ISO 17442 Legal Entity Identifier LEI: 213800TMP5DQFDKOZ549 · Knightsbridge Financial Ltd · Active Verify at GLEIF → NIST FIPS 203 / 204 / 205 Post-Quantum Cryptography ML-KEM-768 · ML-DSA-65 · SLH-DSA · In production from genesis NIST FIPS 204 → NIST ACVTS Algorithm Validation Testing ML-DSA-65 · ML-KEM-768 · NIST Demo environment credentials active NIST CAVP → PKI Consortium Member PQC Working Group · PQC Capabilities Matrix · pkic.org Verify at PKIC → CSA Quantum-Safe Security WG Working Group Member Cloud Security Alliance · Quantum-Safe Security Working Group · Active CSA Working Group → DIF · Linux Foundation Contributor Member Decentralized Identity Foundation · Joint Development Foundation Projects LLC · Membership M-018609 · Knightsbridge Financial Ltd · to 26 August 2027 Decentralized Identity Foundation → CoSAI · OASIS Open Open Project Participant Coalition for Secure AI · OASIS Open Project · general list participation from 26 August 2026 Coalition for Secure AI → IETF · LAMPS WG Standards Body Participant Post-quantum X.509 certificate standards · datatracker.ietf.org · Active IETF Datatracker → UK eIDAS · AES Advanced e-Signature Compliant KXCO Meridian meets UK eIDAS Art.26 Advanced Electronic Signature criteria KXCO Meridian → NSA CNSA 2.0 Market Deadline CNSA 2.0 sets the US national-security PQC timeline (Level 5: ML-DSA-87). KXCO uses ML-DSA-65, NIST FIPS-204, Category 3. NSA CNSA 2.0 → ETSI TS 119 312 Algorithm Suitability Aligned European e-signature algorithm suitability framework · FIPS 203/204 aligned ETSI TS 119 312 → CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM PQC Inventory Standard ML-DSA-65 signed CBOM output · OWASP · ECMA-424 · EU Cyber Resilience Act ready CycloneDX → Patent Pending Identity-Verified Records Anchored to a Blockchain Ledger Application S2025/0544 · Inventors: Grant Leech, John Heffernan & Shayne Heffernan · Intellectual Property Office of Ireland kxco.ai → Companies House · UK UK Incorporated Knightsbridge Financial Ltd · Company No. 15684975 · England & Wales Companies House → G7 Cyber Expert Group PQC Mandate Aligned January 2026 financial sector roadmap · Mandate deadline 2030–2032 · KXCO: done G7 FSB → Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Published RFC 9116 security.txt · Safe harbour for good-faith research · SSVC triage · 2-business-day acknowledgement · Aligned to the CISA / NSA / NCSC-UK / NCSC-NL / JPCERT-CC joint guidance of 15 July 2026 Read the policy → US Executive Order 14412 Market Deadline Section 6(d) requires covered US contractors to run vulnerability disclosure policies that accept cryptographic vulnerability reports; FAR proposed rule due within 270 days of 22 June 2026. 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