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SEBA Bank appoints Päivi Rekonen as Chair to its Board of Directors

Päivi Rekonen joins SEBA Bank as Chair to the Board of Directors with immediate effect taking over from Sébastien Mérillat, Chair ad interim. The Board of Directors is further strengthened with the appointment of Hans Kuhn and Sanjeev Karkhanis. Zug, 25 September 2020 – SEBA Bank, a FINMA licensed Swiss Bank providing a seamless, secure … Continued

SEBA Bank Announces Joint Venture Partnership with Lightnet Group

The collaboration strengthens SEBA ’s Asset Tokenization Division in the field of Digital Treasury Products & Services and underlines the expert status which SEBA Bank prides itself on internationally. The offered remittance services bypass the traditional remittance industry and provides millions of unbanked migrant workers in Southeast Asia with a more favourable service. Zug, 25 … Continued

SEBA Bank initiatives with CMTA’s test run for tokenization

The Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA) along with SEBA Bank and other leading financial institutions Sygnum Bank, Arab Bank, Vontobel and Swissquote have successfully completed a test run for decentralized capital market infrastructures for tokenization. The dry run was designed to test trading security tokens using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The banks acquired tokenized … Continued

SEBA undergoes independent Assurance Engagement

SEBA ´s institutional-grade solution for digital custody has successfully completed independent audits in relation with the implemented processes and controls. Zug, 30 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 its institutional-grade solution for digital custody has successfully … Continued

SEBA Bank organisational changes to its Board of Directors

Andreas Amschwand, Chairman of the Board of Directors at SEBA Bank, has decided to leave the board and focus on other mandates. Sébastien Mérillat, founder and Member of the Board at SEBA Bank, will be proposed as the interim Chairman in the upcoming Board meeting. Zug, 28 July 2020 – SEBA Bank, a FINMA licenced … Continued

Banque de France announces candidates for testing integration of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

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

SEBA is the first digital bank offering asset securitization services on the public Corda Network using DASL

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

SEBA Bank launches “Dual Currency Certificate on Bitcoin/USD”: Benefit from crypto volatility

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

SEBA launches SEBAversity – an educational platform for digital assets and crypto currencies

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

Historical evidence for bitcoin performing like digital gold

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