Tagged: sygnum

August 3, 2023 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, which claims to be one of Switzerland’s leading financial institutions and largest retail banks, leverages its existing partnership with Sygnum, the “world’s first” digital asset bank, to reward their employees “with a free NFT issued by Sygnum as part of their educational game for… Read More

July 26, 2023 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum and SATO Technologies are renewing this innovative green financing solution to grow the global ecosystem of carbon-neutral crypto miners. Sygnum provides cash loans “to green crypto miners who pledge a pre-defined portion of their computational mining power, then sells the mined coins to repay… Read More

June 18, 2023 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum announces the upcoming expansion of its regulated operations in Singapore following the in-principle approval of its Major Payment Institution Licence (MPIL) application. The expanded Singapore offering includes regulated crypto brokerage service. It marks the latest expansion of Sygnum Singapore’s regulated activities “following the three-part… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum announces the addition of Cosmos’ native token ATOM to its expanding portfolio of regulated digital asset banking products and services. Sygnum clients “can now conveniently buy and hold ATOM on its institutional-grade platform and stake their holdings to earn attractive staking rewards” From today,… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s major financial institutions and largest retail banks, partners with Sygnum, which claims to be one of the world’s first digital asset banks, “to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services via Sygnum’s B2B banking platform.” PostFinance‘s partnership… Read More

March 26, 2023 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, the digital asset bank, announces the opening of its Middle East hub in the Abu Dhabi Global Market international financial centre “to provide a portfolio of Swiss-regulated crypto banking services.” This move should further strengthen Sygnum’s global reach, “following Sygnum Singapore’s growth via corporate… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Bison Bank, a regulated bank licensed by the Banco de Portugal, has inked an agreement with Sygnum Bank to enter the global crypto markets. The move follows the announcement of Bison Digital Assets, a subsidiary of the bank aiming to provide digital asset services like … Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, which claims to be the world’s first digital asset bank and first Swiss bank to open a hub in the metaverse, leverages its oversubscribed USD 90m Series B “to expand internationally into Abu Dhabi’s high-growth crypto-hub.” In addition to this, Sygnum is further strengthening… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum Bank announces that it has expanded its bank-grade staking offering with Cardano (ADA), the eighth-largest protocol by market cap (at the time of writing). Clients can “conveniently and securely stake Cardano through Sygnum’s institutional-grade banking platform to generate staking rewards.” Cardano (ADA) joins Sygnum’s… Read More

July 14, 2022 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum has strengthened its core tech leadership team and digital transformation capabilities with the addition of key executives to its Board of Directors, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao, CEO of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, and Al-Noor Ramji, Tata Motors board member and former Prudential Chief Digital… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 2:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This week, crypto (again) reached “record levels” of investment while industry professionals gathered to predict the key trends for the sector in 2022, the team at Sygnum Bank wrote in a blog post. At the same time, Sygnum has introduced a structured product offering (what… Read More

November 26, 2021 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum Bank has confirmed that it has now onboarded VZ VermögensZentrum, an independent Swiss financial services firm that’s listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, as the latest partner for its B2B banking solution. VZ VermögensZentrum’s partnership with Sygnum Bank enables them to “expand their offering… Read More

November 8, 2021 @ 7:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Last month, Sygnum had reportedly closed the subscription to its first Art Security Tokens (ASTs), representing the ownership rights to Picasso’s Fillette au béret painting. As noted in the announcement, this landmark initiative “enables investors to purchase and trade tokens in this 20th century masterpiece… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings, Switzerland’s crypto-asset bank Sygnum, and European asset management firm Azimut Group have introduced a VC fund of up to $75M that will be based in Singapore. It will focus on making investments in startups operating in the digital assets space…. Read More

August 28, 2021 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On Friday (August 27, 2021), the team at Sygnum banking platform celebrated their anniversary as a “regulated Swiss bank.” As mentioned in an update from Sygnum Bank: “Two years since we received our banking and securities dealer license, we now have significantly more than CHF… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 8:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at DFINITY, which is described as the Internet Computer and a “revolutionary” blockchain hosting “unlimited” data and computation “on-chain,” (while easily building scalable dapps, DeFi, and websites), reveals that their Internet Computer effectively replaces usernames and passwords with “a more advanced and secure… Read More

April 15, 2021 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Swisscom has joined with financial firms SEBA, Sygnum, Vontobel, and Swissquote, to pilot the Swiss Institutional Digital Asset Reference Rate (SIDAR). According to a public statement, during a two-week testing period, the partners carried out daily fixings for Bitcoin and Ether. The banks acted as… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 1:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Swiss Stock Exchange has announced a “major stake” in Custodigit a joint venture between Swisscom & digital asset Bank Sygnum. Simultaneously, the company announced it would partner with Swisscom and Sygnum to provide an “Institutional Digital Asset Gateway.” Swisscom is Switzerland’s top telecoms &… Read More

May 3, 2020 @ 8:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum Bank, a licensed digital asset bank, confirmed on April 30, 2020, that XRP digital tokens will be available through its banking services platform. Customers now have the option of depositing, trading, and accessing credit services using the XRP cryptocurrency. Headquartered in Switzerland, the FINMA-licensed… Read More

August 26, 2019 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset platform Sygnum has received a banking and securities dealer license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). The Zurich, Switzerland based Fintech reports this is the first time a digital asset specialist has received the license from FINMA – joining SEBA who… Read More