Company: Sygnum Bank Middle East
Senior Executive Officer: Giulia Finkbeiner-Bertoni
Website: https://www.sygnum.com/uae/
About Sygnum Bank Middle East
Sygnum is a global digital asset banking group, and the first to deliver regulated digital asset banking as a licensed bank, with a banking license in Switzerland (FINMA) and capital markets licenses in Singapore (MAS). It lets institutional and professional clients invest, borrow, trade, stake, tokenise and safekeep digital assets with the security and trust of a regulated bank.
In 2023 Sygnum brought this model to the region by launching Sygnum Bank Middle East in Abu Dhabi, operating from the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) under a financial services license. The Middle East business is led by Giulia Finkbeiner-Bertoni, who heads regional operations across MENA from ADGM. The aim is straightforward: give banks, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and professional investors in the region a regulated, bank grade route into digital assets, rather than an unregulated one.
Sygnum offers custody, brokerage, tokenisation, asset management, lending and B2B banking from a single regulated platform. In 2026 it used its tokenisation platform, Desygnate, to bring blue chip funds on chain, including a Fidelity International liquidity fund and shares in a USD 4.9 billion Hamilton Lane private markets fund. Its off exchange custody platform, Sygnum Protect, lets institutions trade on major exchanges while their assets stay in segregated, bankruptcy remote bank custody. Sygnum also became the first European digital asset bank to work with BNY on dollar settlement, and reached unicorn status following a strategic funding round.
For the Middle East, Sygnum brings global, institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure to a region that is moving fast on tokenisation and digital finance. From its Abu Dhabi base it connects regional capital to global markets, supports the growth of ADGM as a digital asset hub, and gives regional institutions a trusted partner as they adopt tokenised assets and digital asset custody. As governments and institutions across MENA accelerate their digital asset strategies, Sygnum aims to be the regulated bank that powers that shift.
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