Digital Assets

FINMA's Crypto Banking Framework: How Switzerland Regulates Digital Asset Banks

When Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority granted banking licences to SEBA Bank and Sygnum Bank in August 2019, it made a statement about …

Swiss Private Banking Outlook 2026: Consolidation, Digitalisation and the Crypto Shift

Swiss private banking enters 2026 carrying the weight of a structural reckoning that has been building for nearly a decade. The sector that once defined global …

Wealth Management in Crypto Valley: How Zug Serves the Blockchain Rich

Zug is a small canton by any conventional measure — 239 square kilometres, a population of roughly 130,000, and a lake that attracts more tourists than …

Alternative Trading Systems (ATS) in Switzerland

Definition

An Alternative Trading System (ATS) is an electronic trading venue that matches orders in securities — or, increasingly, digital assets — without the …

FINMA: Switzerland's Integrated Financial Regulator

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority — FINMA — supervises one of the world’s most complex and internationally significant financial systems …

SEBA Bank (now AMINA Bank): The Pioneer Swiss Crypto Bank

On 26 August 2019, Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) granted banking and securities dealer licences to two newly formed …