Tokenisation
Tokenisation lets you create unique investment opportunities for investors. Sygnum can help you do this across the entire value chain with expert legal, regulatory, corporate finance and DLT advice.
When issuers define tokens on-chain that include ownership in the underlying assets, fractional ownership in an asset becomes efficient and easy.
Issuers and investors gain complete peace of mind because they have full legal clarity over their ownership. Sygnum navigates the legal and regulatory requirements for you, with Swiss DLT law or abroad.
Tokenisation with fractional ownership and lower ticket sizes makes investing in illiquid or hard-to-access assets possible for a wider range of investors.
Fractional ownership makes it easier to add tokenised assets to diversify a portfolio and to integrate all assets into a holistic portfolio view.
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.
Become a client to invest
SygnEx is Sygnum’s secondary market trading facility for tokenised assets. Both issuers and investors benefit from increased liquidity and a standardised early exit opportunity for acquired assets.
Become a client to issue tokens
Artemundi, an art investment pioneer, and Sygnum partnered in 2021 to tokenise Picasso’s painting, Fillette au béret. This marked the first time the ownership rights for a Picasso, or any artwork, were broadcast onto a public blockchain by a regulated bank, enabling investors to purchase and trade a share of the artwork through Art Security Tokens (ASTs).
We call the emergence of a trusted, secure and efficient digital asset economy “Future Finance”. See an example below of how we are making this a reality, built on our three pillars of trust, technology, together.
“Sygnum is your partner of choice to securely issue, store, trade and manage tokenised assets.”
Asset tokens can be bought through Sygnum’s tokenisation platforms. Investors can either buy asset token through a subscription in the primary market via our issuance platform Desygnate or a buy order on our secondary trading marketplace SygnEx. Asset tokens can also be freely transferred to any investor on the Sygnum e-banking platform
Asset tokens are secured the same way protocol tokens like Bitcoin are. Sygnum’s regulated multi-custody solution has been engineered to provide institutional-grade security, enabling our clients to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.
Investment in all asset tokens on our platform are available to all Sygnum clients.
In the unlikely case of a Sygnum insolvency, Sygnum clients are protected by law and covered by the esisuisse bank deposit protection scheme, up to a maximum of CHF 100,000 per client. Asset tokens and all other crypto assets are held off balance sheet by Sygnum, and they are unaffected in the event of an insolvency. In this case, the tokens would be transferred to our clients’ external private wallets.
Asset tokens can be traded on SygnEx, Sygnum’s regulated secondary market, which can be accessed via the e-banking portal by clicking “Asset Token Trading”. On SygnEx, orders can be placed in the order book, or existing orders in the order book can be accepted. Automatic matching is not possible for regulatory reasons.
Transferring your security tokens to an external private wallet is not possible. Currently, only wallets held in custody by Sygnum are whitelisted.
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