The latest research from the AMINA team

The lessons learned from these experiments will constitute a direct contribution to the more global reflection conducted by the Eurosystem on the benefits of a CBDC. These experiments also illustrate Banque de France’s commitment to innovation, which was recently chosen to host, with the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank, a new joint innovation … Continued

Zug, 15 July 2020 – SEBA Bank, a FINMA licenced Swiss Bank providing a seamless, secure and easy-to-use bridge between digital and traditional assets, today announces that they will be partnering with Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL) – the liquidity network for digital assets. This partnership allows SEBA Bank to offer institutional clients the ability … Continued

Switzerland’s SEBA Bank launches an innovative investment product that takes advantage of bitcoin’s high volatility.The Dual Currency Certificate on BTC/USD offers easy entry into the cryptocurrency market and an attractive return.The potential loss associated with bitcoin is offset by a yield of 3.23% for a fixed three-week, 2 days term (annualized yield of 44.70%). The … Continued

SEBAversity is a novel, non-profit educational platform in the field of blockchain technology, digital assets and crypto currencies Through online and offline content, SEBAversity combines practice-oriented expert knowledge with academic research SEBAversity has renowned academic partners: FinTech Innovation Lab of the University of Zurich, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Frankfurt … Continued

In the first days after the outbreak of the coronavirus crises in the West, crypto plunged like traditional asset classes. Bitcoin was pronounced dead. A historical analysis by SEBA Research of several assets indicates that except for this event, crypto does not correlate with stock markets. In spite of BTC price drop, the underlying blockchain … Continued

It is customary in articles like this to trumpet that “2020 will be the year when digital assets explode”. We are all eager to see blockchain achieve wider adoption, but I believe we need to adopt a slightly longer time horizon. It will most likely take three to five years to fully establish the infrastructural … Continued

SEBA Bank, an integrated bank for digital and traditional assets and licensed by the Swiss supervisory authority FINMA, is now onboarding clients from 10 jurisdictions through a user-friendly digital onboarding process. After a successful start in its home market in November, SEBA Bank now accepts institutional and private professional clients from Singapore, Hong Kong, U.K., … Continued

SEBA Bank starts its investment business and launches the SEBA Crypto Asset Select Index (SEBAX) for crypto currencies. SEBAX addresses the predominant problem of traditional market value-weighted indices, making index investments interesting for the digital investment market as well. Zug, 26 November 2019 – SEBA, an integrated bank focused on digital assets, launches its investment … Continued

Swiss clients can now officially open an account with an integrated bank focusing on digital assets Following the granting of a banking licence by FINMA in August 2019 and the completion of a one-month test phase, Swiss clients can now officially onboard with an integrated bank for traditional and digital assets. This sees SEBA make … Continued

SEBA receives FINMA banking and securities dealer licence allowing it to close the gap between traditional and digital asset markets For the first time, a reputed regulatory authority – the Swiss Financial Market Authority (FINMA) – grants a banking licence to a financial services provider with main focus on digital assets As a licenced and … Continued