Global digital banking group Sygnum has announced the launch of an institutional crypto asset management service targeting the $100 billion corporate crypto treasury sector.
Launched on Thursday, Sygnum Select is described as a “discretionary mandate service” that applies the established Swiss banking portfolio management model to crypto assets.
The service will launch with current customer mandates, customer assets and actively managed portfolios worth $200 million, a Sygnum spokesperson told Cointelegraph.
The move comes amid solid growth in corporate and public digital asset treasury (DAT) companies over the past few years, which now hold over $100 billion in crypto assets.
“However, many of them do not have the infrastructure to support institutional-level professional management,” creating “strong demand” for regulated services to offer such products and address the gap, Sygnum said.
Currently, there are 1.13 million BTC in public companies and 287,990 BTC in private companies with a total value of $97 billion, According to to BitcoinTreasuries.
Not all DATs were successful. ETHZilla changed its name to “Forum” on Wednesday as part of a move away from holding cryptocurrencies, focusing on tokenized assets after shares fell 20% so far in the year.
Meanwhile, the world’s largest BNB treasury company, CEA Industries, has crashed 94% from its high last year, apparently blaming Binance founder Changpeng Zhao’s family office, YZi Labs, for the “secret side deal.”
Sygnum said there had been a change in customer needs
Sygnum Select assumes full enforcement authority within the investment framework agreed with the client, handling strategic asset allocation, lively rebalancing and risk oversight.
“As digital assets mature and institutional adoption accelerates, we see a clear shift in customer needs,” said Fabian Dori, Sygnum’s chief investment officer.
He added that cryptocurrency foundations and corporate treasuries are no longer simply looking for deposit and trading, “they want a trusted, regulated counterparty that can actively manage their assets with the same discipline and holistic approach as a traditional private bank.”
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According to Sygnum, live orders include spot trading, staking, hedging, derivatives, tokenized securities and market neutral strategies, and most portfolios span multiple asset classes spanning established and crypto assets.
“Clients now have access to tailored portfolio management that combines what traditional asset managers or crypto firms can offer,” explained Markus Haemmerli, Director of Portfolio Management at Sygnum.
The service is initially only available to Swiss customers, but wider geographic expansion is planned.
In January, Sygnum raised over 750 BTC for its market-neutral Bitcoin (BTC) fund, which saw an annualized return of 8.9% in Q4 2025.
The Swiss crypto bank has achieved a post-money valuation of over $1 billion after securing $58 million in an oversubscribed strategic growth round in January 2025.
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