{"id":46855,"date":"2021-07-28T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46855"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:31:22","slug":"wealthy-clients-show-interest-in-cryptocurrencies-at-swiss-bank-vontobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wealthy-clients-show-interest-in-cryptocurrencies-at-swiss-bank-vontobel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy clients show interest in cryptocurrencies at Swiss bank Vontobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Swiss private bank Vontobel, Zeno Staub, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2021-07-27\/vontobel-ceo-sees-some-wealthy-clients-allocating-to-crypto-video\">\u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044c\u044e <\/a>Bloomberg said that some wealthy clients are interested in transferring part of their assets into cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to him, the institution limits its activities with digital assets, supporting a few of the largest ones.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe offer our clients some cryptocurrencies, which we consider a safe, convenient and easy-to-use way to access them. They value this and allocate a portion of their wealth to them,\u201d said Staub.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he believes that the technology underlying such assets has a much greater significance for transforming finance than its individual applications.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe believe that blockchain is the logical consequence of the broader trend toward <span data-descr=\"financing through the issuance of asset-backed securities generating a stable cash flow\" class=\"old_tooltip\">securitization<\/span>, because it is the only available technology that can create trust without a central counterparty,\u201d said Zeno Staub, CEO of Vontobel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in 2019, the bank launched a custody solution for digital assets called Digital Asset Vault.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Bloomberg interview, Zeno Staub, CEO of Swiss private bank Vontobel, said that some wealthy clients are interested in moving part of their assets into cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1229,1156,468],"class_list":["post-46855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-banks-and-fintech","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-switzerland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46857,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46855\/revisions\/46857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}