瑞士私营银行Vontobel计划提供加密货币托管服务，该银行管理层表示其或许是世界首家提供加密资产托管服务的银行。

Vontobel自2016年就开始提供加密货币投资产品，如今，他们希望能够拓展这方面的业务。

Vontobel的投行业务主管Roger Studer表示：

据我所知，Vontobel是全球唯一一家提供数字资产托管服务的银行。在瑞士，银行业对加密货币的态度十分友好，多家银行都希望能面向机构及个人投资者提供加密货币服务。

Studer补充说，Vontobel的托管服务不仅仅是面向瑞士市场，还将面向全世界。

……我们在两年前决定为我们的客户挺全新的加密货币投资入口。我们的托管服务预示着我们正向这个方向稳步前进。

Vontobel已经与日内瓦初创公司Taurus建立了合作关系，后者专注于加密货币托管和存储业务。Vontobel计划运作一个“数字资产保险库”，和Xapo在瑞士的业务类似。

Taurus联合创始人Lamine Brahimi指出：

Taurus和Vontobel之间的合作对于瑞士金融市场来说至关重要，因为我们连接了两个世界：传统银行业以及加密货币金融业。英文原文

Swiss private bank Vontobel is planning to offer custody services for cryptocurrencies in a move executives described as a worldwide “first.”

VONTOBEL TO CREATE ‘DIGITAL ASSET VAULT’

In an interview with local finance magazine Finews.ch, Vontobel, which has offered cryptocurrency-related investment products since 2016, said it now wanted to increase its integration.

“As far as I know, Vontobel is the only bank globally to offer itself as a custodian for digital assets,” investment banking head Roger Studer told the publication.

Switzerland continues to position itself as a leader in banking attitudes to cryptocurrency, with multiple entities seeking to open up the market to institutional and private investors.

However, Vontobel, Studer says, will be the first bank-sponsored custody solution to market, not just in Switzerland but in the world.

“…We decided two years ago to make the new crypto investment world available to our clients,” he continued. “Our custody offering is a further step in this direction.”

LEGACY FINANCE SIDLES UP TO CRYPTO ASSETS

The move will come via a partnership with Geneva-based startup Taurus, which specializes in crypto custody and storage. Vontobel will ultimately operate what it calls a “Digital Asset Vault,” a label synonymous with the physical bunker currently operated in Switzerland by Xapo.

“The cooperation between Taurus and Vontobel is of high importance for the Swiss financial market because we are linking up two worlds: traditional banking and crypto finance,” Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi continued to Finews.

As Bitcoinist reported, 2018 already saw more direct support for Bitcoin specifically from Swiss financial sources.

IT consulting firm Inacta AG, one resident of the country’s Crypto Valley community in the city of Zug, became one of the first users of Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain in December.