B2B Banking

Sygnum makes it easy for banks to offer clients digital assets

 

Secure, reliable, tailored access the dynamic digital asset market requires specialist expertise and flexible solutions. Sygnum’s modular, FINMA-regulated all-in-one access lets you do this. Provide custody and trading, or specialised investments and asset tokenisation. Sygnum supports over 15 partner banks in private, retail and universal banking globally, so they can focus on growing strong client relationships.

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Sygnum B2B banking solutions

Security

Store your clients’ digital assets with institutional-grade trust, instant 24/7 access, held off balance sheet, with no capital underpinning and no counterparty risk to Sygnum.

Modular access in less than 60 days

Access Sygnum’s entire product suite in just 60 days. Get fast time-to-market with Sygnum’s suite of banking services through one entry point, including accounts, payments and custody, brokerage, tokenisation, lending and asset management.

Scale and automate

The seamless API integration empowers established financial institutions to position themselves as innovation leaders, while automating processes and scaling their business.

Seamless digital asset banking

Custody

Secure your clients’ digital assets with Sygnum’s bank-grade integrated multi-custody solution. Give your clients the choice of leveraging wallets that support instant off-chain settlement for trading or storing assets in segregated wallets on-chain.

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Trading

Trade 24/7 with best-price execution across a range of global OTC providers connected to Sygnum’s trading infrastructure. Integrated and convenient platform for 24/7 trading through a GUI, complex transactions facilitated by our Trading Desk or for scalability via APIs.

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Staking

Staking puts your clients’ digital assets to work while they stay secured in our bank grade custody. Staking ETH, Tezos, ICP, ADA and other tokens with Sygnum generates environmentally friendly yield in an institutional-grade digital asset custody solution.

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Lending

Let your clients access a cost-effective credit line quickly and conveniently using their crypto assets as collateral, so they can invest elsewhere or achieve new goals with their capital.

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Crypto compliance and RegTech

Banks and VASPs can expand their crypto offering by relying on Sygnum’s extensive knowledge and experience in Crypto AML and RegTech. Sygnum’s RegTech and Crypto Compliance Services Team enables financial intermediaries to offer crypto services to their clients in a regulated, compliant and technology-efficient environment.

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Regtech and Compliance

C-AML tool

Banks and VASPs benefit from Sygnum’s state-of-the-art crypto transaction monitoring tool “C-AML”. This tool provides a regulatory compliant crypto transaction monitoring process, which covers the Travel Rule and unhosted wallets.

Crypto compliance services

Banks and VASPs can add crypto asset services in a diligent and compliant manner and benefit from Sygnum’s specialised legal, compliance and regulatory expertise in blockchain and crypto assets.

Crypto compliance education

Enabling employees with the right legal, compliance and regulatory skillset, as well as building crypto asset expertise, is a key step in developing a digital asset offering. Sygnum provides tailored workshops that cover current and critical industry developments for banks and VASPs.

Tokenisation

Sygnum’s team of corporate finance, DLT, legal and regulatory experts advises issuers on all aspects of a tokenisation project. This enables an industry-leading technology solution that covers the entire tokenisation value chain and creates unique investment opportunities for investors.

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Sygnum asset tokenization

Desygnate

Desygnate is Sygnum’s primary market issuance platform. It covers the legal and financial structuring activities for the underlying asset, the token minting, as well as the subscription and issuance process.

SygnEx

SygnEx is Sygnum’s secondary market trading facility for tokenised assets. Both issuers and investors benefit from increased liquidity and a standardised exit opportunity for acquired assets.

Sygnum education

Growing expertise and experience with digital assets can be accelerated with Sygnum as a trusted partner. Both quality and delivery are assured, thanks to Sygnum’s wide range of regulated solutions and services, expertise and state-of-the-art digital asset infrastructure.

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B2B fact sheet

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Partners

Read more to learn how each of these partner banks is working with digital assets. Sygnum supports over 15 partner banks in private, retail and universal banking globally, so they can focus on growing strong client relationships.

Zuger Kantonalbank

Hanspeter Rhyner

CEO, Zuger Kantonalbank

“We are proud to be the first Swiss cantonal bank to seamlessly integrate traditional and crypto assets on our platform and make these future-ready investments available to our customers. Our partnership with Sygnum to build this advanced infrastructure is a solid foundation for our future development.”

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LUKB Luzerner Kantonalbank

Marcel Hurschler

CFO, LUKB Luzerner Kantonalbank

“Luzerner Kantonalbank AG continues to support its customers as a reliable partner and with innovative solutions. That’s why we have worked and built up in-house expertise for secure custody, transfer and trading of crypto and digital assets. Sygnum, Wyden and Fireblocks are providing us with crucial technology.”

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PostFinance

Philipp Merkt

CIO, PostFinance

“Digital assets have become an integral part of the financial world, and our customers want access to this market from PostFinance, their trusted principal bank. A reputable and established partner like Sygnum Bank with an excellent service offering is more important than ever.”

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Bison Digital

António Henriques

CEO, Bison Digital Assets

“The ability for banks to innovate and continually expand client choice is key to staying competitive and being future ready. Our B2B platform enables this at speed and with full compliance for Bison Digital Assets. This represents another trusted node in the expanding European crypto ecosystem, and we look forward to partnering with banks and bank-backed VASPs that empower their end-clients to invest in crypto with complete trust.”

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Vermögens Zentrum

Marc Weber

CEO, VZ Depotbank

“VZ VermögensZentrum is always interested in innovative solutions in the field of finance to enhance competitiveness and cater for fast-changing client needs. The cooperation with Sygnum offers us an opportunity to incorporate the company’s perspective into the further development of the products on offer and empowers our customers to invest in this new asset class in a convenient, secure and regulated setting.”

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Bordier 1844

Evrard Bordier

Managing Partner, Bordier & Cie SCmA

“We have seen increasing demand from our clients to diversify into alternative asset classes such as digital assets. By partnering with Sygnum Bank, we are providing our clients with a one-stop, integrated solution while empowering them to invest in this new, high growth asset class with complete trust.”

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FAQ

How can I contact the Sygnum B2B banking team? 

For more information on our product offering, or to discuss a potential partnership, please contact the B2B banking team here.  

What is the time to market for implementation for Sygnum B2B clients?

Our modular “plug-n-play” services allows banks and VASPs to enable digital assets for their clients in less than 60 days. However, the starting point of our B2B partners is not always the same; many banks want to expand their investment offering by adding cryptocurrencies, others prefer to start with tokenisation and make non-bankable assets bankable e.g. for succession planning, art, real estate and lending opportunities.

Whatever the partner banks’ strategic goals, once onboarded with Sygnum they can leverage any part of Sygnum’s offering to provide new products and services to their clients. Our partners typically start by expand their client offering via one or all of Sygnum’s “plug-n-play” services, and then drive efficiency and operational skills via our automated processes, crypto compliance tools and open APIs.  Learn more about these services here.

What are examples of Sygnum’s B2B banking partners?

“PostFinance partners with Sygnum Bank to offer cryptocurrencies”
Read the press release here.

“Bordier & Cie SCmA to offer cryptocurrencies via Sygnum’s all-in-one B2B banking platform”
Read the press release here.

“Bison Bank’s crypto subsidiary partners with Sygnum to enter crypto market”
Read the press release here

“VermögensZentrum partners with Sygnum”
Read the press release here

What is Sygnum’s B2B (Bank-to-Bank) service offering?

Our B2B services feature modular “plug-n-play” functionality to Sygnum’s full suite of integrated banking services, including bank-grade custody, brokerage, tokenisation, lending and asset management. This includes dedicated Bank-to-Bank integration via APIs, crypto compliance advisory and education services, automated tools and tailored financial products.   

What types of clients do Sygnum’s B2B banking team partner with? 

Sygnum’s B2B team offers digital assets services for private, universal and retail banks as well as VASPs. We act as a trusted advisor and partner, supporting them to be the trusted gateway between traditional and digital assets for their clients, and through this, empowering them to retain and strengthen client relationships. 

Partners can choose to deploy any of Sygnum’s modular offerings to meet their client needs – whether they are integrated banking services like buying, selling or the secure custody of funds, or specific services like making non-bankable assets bankable via tokenisation.   

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News

PKB Private Bank partners with Sygnum Bank to launch a regulated digital asset offering

Lugano and Zurich, 12 March, 2024: PKB is pleased to announce its partnership with Sygnum Bank, a global digital asset banking group, to offer its customers access to a regulated digital asset…
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Sygnum Bank, Hamilton Lane and Apex Group Expand Access to Private Markets via DLT-Registered Shares in USD 3.8bn Fund

Zurich, 29 February, 2024 – Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group; Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE), a leading global private markets investment management firm; and financial services firm…
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PostFinance launches a crypto offering for 2.5 million customers, partnering with Sygnum Bank

Zurich, 20 February, 2024 – PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s leading financial institutions and largest retail banks, launches an innovative crypto offering tomorrow in partnership with…
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