Digital asset banking for external asset managers

Navigate the crypto asset ecosystem with expert guidance from Sygnum.

Create tailor-made, diversified portfolios that include both crypto assets and traditional securities for your clients. Sygnum provides access to the crypto ecosystem that is designed for the needs of independent financial advisors, External Asset Managers (EAMs), Multi-Family Offices (MFOs) and other financial intermediaries.

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Tailored solutions

Manage your clients’ wealth with a Limited Power of Attorney (LPOA) agreement and Sygnum’s FINMA-regulated all-in-one access for digital asset custody and trading, traditional securities and asset tokenization.

Dedicated team

Sygnum understands the responsibility that comes with wealth management. Benefit from our expertise in crypto assets and traditional finance to make timely, informed investment decisions with your clients.

Security

Store your clients’ crypto assets with institutional-grade trust, protected by Sygnum’s multi-layer security architecture. Clients’ assets are held off balance sheet, protecting you from counterparty risk exposure to Sygnum.

Seamless digital asset banking for professional investors

Designed for External Asset Managers, our platform enables you to manage digital and traditional assets efficiently under one roof, while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance and operational excellence. With bank-grade custody, best-execution trading, and seamless portfolio management workflows, you can expand your clients’ investment opportunities without adding operational complexity.

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Trading

Professional 24/7 trading on the crypto markets with Sygnum’s secure infrastructure, deep liquidity and expertise.

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Staking

Put your digital assets to work and generate yield with a convenient service integrated into our institutional-grade custody.

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Custody Bank-grade security

Custody

Securely store a wide range of digital assets and maintain instant access with our bank-grade integrated multi-custody solution.

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Lending

Access cost-efficient credit solutions using crypto assets or mining hashrate as collateral.

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Asset Management

Learn about the portfolio of investment strategies to access the digital asset markets.

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Sygnum asset tokenization

Tokenization

Learn how tokenization lets issuers and investors raise capital, issue tokenized securities and offer diversified investments.

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Yield Core AMC

Accelerate your strategy deployment with AMCs

Sygnum offers support for Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs), empowering external asset managers to efficiently bring their investment strategies to market. Through our custody and brokerage services, we enable securitisation specialists such as GenTwo and Chartered Investment to structure AMCs within a secure and compliant framework covering the full spectrum of asset classes – including crypto, traditional assets and derivatives.

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Traditional securities

Securely access over 10,000 traditional securities, including fixed income instruments, global equities, ETFs, and ETPs, all from a single trusted institution. This consolidation of holdings allows you to efficiently manage and generate yield on your idle liquidity, conveniently accessible through our user-friendly banking portal.

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WealthBriefing: Swiss EAM Awards

Sygnum Bank is recognised by the WealthBriefing Swiss EAM Awards in 2024 for its digital asset offering tailored for EAMs and their end-clients. The WealthBriefing Awards highlight the importance of external asset managers to the Swiss wealth management industry. WealthBriefing publications provide global news and analysis for the wealth management industry.

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Sygnum is recognised by the Wealth Briefing with the Swiss EAM award 2024 in digital assets

In-house research

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Industry voices

Philipp Hildebrand

“I was very impressed by Sygnum’s focus on how Distributed Ledger Technology will impact the banking industry, and also by their entrepreneurial spirit.”
Philipp Hildebrand Sygnum industry advisor and Vice Chairman of Blackrock
Peter Wuffli

“Distributed ledger technology crystallizes a series of technological developments in recent years that together could help the financial services industry achieve new levels of speed, quality and efficiency.”
Dr. Peter Wuffli Sygnum Director and former Group CEO UBS

External asset manager FAQs

 Is Sygnum fully regulated?

Yes. One of Sygnum’s founding strategies was to be fully regulated from day one in both Switzerland and Singapore. Sygnum holds a banking and securities dealer licence from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), and a Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence from the MAS in Singapore. In June 2023, Sygnum Singapore was granted in principle approval of a Major Payments Institutional Licence from the MAS. In December 2022, Sygnum expanded its offering into Luxembourg, and in March 2023 received a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA). 

Can digital assets be deposited to and withdrawn from a Sygnum wallet?

Yes, Sygnum accepts deposits and withdrawals for all crypto assets for which it offers custody services. 

You can withdraw or make payments with digital assets by withdrawing funds from your Sygnum e-banking platform and sending them to external wallets that you own. Please note that when funds are sent to a wallet that you own for the first time, transactions need to be verified by Sygnum’s proprietary digital asset screening tool in the Client Portal. Please contact us here if you have further questions. 

Please click here for an overview of the digital assets we offer for custody, staking, trading and lending. Further tokens are available on request. 

How can I trade crypto assets with Sygnum?

You need to become a Sygnum client in order to trade. Once you are onboarded, you can trade by either logging into the Sygnum e-banking portal for your account, using an API, or by contacting your Relationship Manager or our Trading Desk directly to place your order. Click here to onboard as a Sygnum client.

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Local restrictions – Provision of cross-border services

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This website and the information contained herein are addressed solely to persons residing or domiciled in Switzerland.

Sygnum is a regulated bank supervised by the Swiss Market Financial Authority (FINMA). The products and services on this website are authorised in Switzerland. Sygnum cannot promote its products and services in other countries where it is not authorised by the supervisory authority of that country to do so.

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