Sygnum eyes Singapore Market with deals to gain banking licenses in the country. The crypto company has been looking to expand ever since it received its banking license from FINMA.
Sygnum, a digital asset technology group, has received a banking and securities dealer licence from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). This is the first time this licence has been awarded to a digital asset specialist with an independently controlled, scalable and future-proof banking solution.
Sygnum empowers digital asset banking
Sygnum delivers traditional bank-grade secure services and convenience for digital assets to its customers, including institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks and other financial institutions. Through full control of its banking solution, Sygnum has the agility to configure secure infrastructure, operations and future services to meet a diverse range of customer needs. The company’s solution systematically embeds digital assets into regulated banking in a way that earns institutional trust and advances the digital asset ecosystem built in partnership with Swisscom and Deutsche Börse Group.
At the solution’s core is an institutional-grade digital custody and fiat-digital asset gateway. Custody is fully integrated with a liquidity platform that offers fast and reliable execution for fiat currencies and major digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and digital CHF tokens. Sygnum’s plans for corporates include the ability to raise new capital by producing asset tokens based on existing financial assets, thereby lowering capital raising costs and improving liquidity for issuers and investors. Additionally, Sygnum offers a lombard loan facility that optimises fiat liquidity and cash flows through loans on digital assets. B2B banking services are also available to existing financial institutions to enable them to provide regulated digital asset products and services to their own customers.
Following the awarding of a MAS Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence in Singapore, fund management services, including a digital asset multi-manager fund, will be offered.
“Being awarded the banking and securities dealer licence from FINMA is a significant milestone, and an important step towards the institutionalisation of the digital asset economy”, emphasises Manuel Krieger, Co-Founder and CEO Switzerland. “This licence is a major landmark on our mission to empower digital asset banking by building integrated, secure products and services with seamless customer experiences. We are looking forward to taking Sygnum’s integrated digital asset banking solution to market, together with our valued customers and partners”, adds Mathias Imbach, Co-Founder and CEO Singapore.
“To date, a lack of institutional-grade custody and a truly integrated banking solution has slowed the adoption of digital assets by institutional investors”, comments Luka Müller-Studer, Co-Founder and Chairman. “Today’s licence announcement is a game-changer. By methodologically incorporating digital assets into traditional banking, and injecting much needed DLT-driven agility, Sygnum is accelerating the development of an important new asset class.”
About Sygnum
Sygnum is a digital asset technology group with a Swiss banking and securities dealer licence. Sygnum empowers institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust. The company is the first Swiss digital asset specialist with an independently controlled, scalable and future-proof regulated banking solution. Sygnum’s interdisciplinary team of banking, investment and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) experts are shaping the development of a trusted digital asset ecosystem. The company is founded on Swiss and Singapore banking heritage and operates globally. To learn more, please visit Sygnum at www.sygnum.com.
