PROFILE
Sygnum: providing an institutional experience Sygnum, a regulated digital asset bank, founded in Switzerland and Singapore, started in 2017 with the idea of providing a secure, agile infrastructure and operations for investors to invest in digital assets with complete trust.
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he bank offers a full range of regulated digital asset banking services across fiat and cryptocurrencies for professional and private qualified investors. This includes crypto trading, custody, staking, lending and asset token issuance with our token marketplace.
Today it employs almost 200 people although its entrepreneurial start-up roots remain, especially as its services and products continue to challenge the idea of what crypto assets can do and complement the domain of traditional finance. In part one of a two-part article, Katalin Tischhauser (pictured), head of discretionary solutions and investment research, Sygnum Asset Management, talked to SRP about the bank’s strategic mission, its highlights in 2021, and the challenges with exchange-traded products (ETPs). “I work on our growing range of asset management products,” said Tischhauser. “Our goal is to provide the institutional
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experience and products that you expect from a bank in both traditional and alternative asset classes plus the depth of research, expertise and relationships that you find in the digital asset investing ecosystem.” Sygnum’s strategic mission is to realise Future Finance; a future where everyone can invest in digital assets with complete trust. “Our banking infrastructure was built from the ground up to offer institutional-grade security and is the platform for our fast-growing integrated portfolio of services. “These range from our convenient fiat-digital asset gateway, segregated accounts with multi-level security, to our full range of banking services including 24/7 trading, staking to generate yield, Lombard loans as well as the corporate finance-side of crypto assets,” said Tischhauser. According to Tischhauser, key highlights in 2021 included the
