Singapore · Payments & e-money
Sygnum PTE. LTD.
Sygnum Pte. Ltd. is a private limited company incorporated in Singapore, where it has its office. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) licenses it as a Capital Markets Services licensee and as a Major Payment Institution, which covers digital payment token service. It belongs to the Sygnum group, and its LEI record names the Swiss bank Sygnum Bank AG as its direct and ultimate parent. It offers digital asset trading, custody, staking and asset management to accredited and institutional investors, mainly in Singapore. MAS granted the Major Payment Institution licence in October 2023. Reto Marx became chief executive on 1 August 2026.
Licences and registrations
Held by Sygnum PTE. LTD. (LEI 9845002DF69C3D82D045). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 25 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAS Financial Institutions Directory - Major Payment InstitutionMonetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) | Major Payment InstitutionPayment Institution | Not published by the register | Singapore | Active | — | — |
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Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.
Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Sygnum Bank AG
Firm type
Crypto exchange or broker
Trades as Sygnum Singapore
- Ownership
- The firm's LEI record names Sygnum Bank AG of Zurich as its direct and ultimate parent for accounting consolidation. According to the group, its co-founders, board and team members hold a majority of Sygnum.
- Direct parent
- Sygnum Bank AG, Switzerland
- Head office
- 3 Fraser Street, #04-22 DUO Tower, 189352 Singapore, Singapore
- Company register
- ACRA UEN 201818902N
- Incorporated
- 2018
- Founders
- Mathias Imbach · Gerald Goh · Luka Müller · Manuel Krieger
Online
- Websites & references
- sygnum.com ↗
sygnum.com ↗ Sygnum group and Sygnum Bank AG site
secure.sygnum.sg ↗ client login portal - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗
Sources · 10 pages consulted
- eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid/institution/detail/228260-SYGNUM-PTE-LTD
- sygnum.com/sg/
- sygnum.com/sg/imprint/
- sygnum.com/sg/help/
- sygnum.com/sg/custody/
- sygnum.com/team/
- sygnum.com/news/sygnum-appoints-reto-marx-as-chief-executive-officer-gerald-goh-assumes-executive-ch
- sygnum.com/news/sygnum-singapore-obtains-major-payment-institution-licence-from-mas/
- sygnum.com/news/sygnum-completes-usd-58m-strategic-growth-round-achieves-unicorn-status-with-1bn-val
- sygnum.com/news/sygnum-agm-deepened-global-leadership-bench-resilience-and-human-in-the-loop-ai-read
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
MAS licenses the firm as a Capital Markets Services licensee and as a Major Payment Institution under the Payment Services Act. The Major Payment Institution licence covers account issuance, domestic and cross-border money transfer, e-money issuance and digital payment token service. The firm's affiliate Sygnum Bank AG executes its clients' digital payment token trades and safeguards their digital assets.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monetary Authority of Singapore Singapore | Major Payment Institution (account issuance, domestic money transfer, cross-border money transfer, e-money issuance and digital payment token services) | — | In its own name | Active | eservices.mas.gov.sg ↗ |
| Monetary Authority of Singapore Singapore | Capital Markets Services Licensee (fund management, dealing in capital markets products, providing custodial services, advising on corporate finance) | — | In its own name | Active | eservices.mas.gov.sg ↗ |
Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.
Partners and safeguarding
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Safeguarding
- Not disclosedThe firm does not publish how it protects clients' fiat money. It states that its clients' digital assets sit in an omnibus account at its affiliate Sygnum Bank AG, a Swiss bank regulated by FINMA, and are excluded from that bank's insolvency estate under Swiss law.
- Crypto-asset custody
- Held by a third-party custodianThe firm brokers digital payment tokens on a matched-principal basis, with its affiliate Sygnum Bank AG executing the trades. The same affiliate holds clients' digital assets in an omnibus account as safeguarding institution.
- Crypto custodian · Partner
- Sygnum Bank AG Switzerland
Banks and regulated firms the firm says hold its customers’ money, issue its cards, sponsor its accounts or settle its payments, as it discloses them in its terms and notices.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
It offers digital payment token brokerage, custody, staking, asset management and tokenisation to accredited and institutional investors in Singapore, and a business-to-business offering to banks.
The firm states that it serves only accredited and institutional investors in Singapore. It may contract with persons outside Singapore who approach it on their own initiative.
- Sells to
- Consumers · Enterprises · Financial institutions
- Serves customers in
- Singapore
- Latest funding round
- Strategic Growth Round · USD 58m Jan 2025Led by Fulgur Ventures
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Reto Marx Chief Executive Officer, Singapore
- Founder
- Gerald Goh Co-Founder & Executive Chairman APAC
- Chief financial officer
- Pascal Gähweiler Chief Risk Officer and Head of Finance
- Compliance / MLRO
- Edison Chan Head of Legal and Compliance
- Executive
- Stefan Mueller Director
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Leadership
Reto Marx became chief executive of Sygnum Singapore on 1 August 2026. Co-founder Gerald Goh became Executive Chairman of Sygnum APAC.
sygnum.com ↗ -
Funding
The Sygnum group raised USD 58 million in a Strategic Growth Round with Fulgur Ventures as cornerstone investor.
sygnum.com ↗ -
Licence
MAS granted the firm a Major Payment Institution licence, which allowed it to launch digital payment token brokerage.
sygnum.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address
- Elucidate firm ID
- d9e7bfaa9bc5
Profile
- Type
- Payments & e-money · CryptoPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
- Main licence class
- Payment Institution
- Activities
- Money remittance
- Payment services
- E-money / stored value
- Crypto-assets
- Licensed in
- Singapore · East Asia & Pacific
- First registered
- Not published
- Website
- www.sygnum.com/sg ↗
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Sygnum Bank AG · Switzerland506700IE6GKPQ6387Y20 ↗
The Sygnum Bank AG group has 2 institutions in the directory, in 2 countries: 1 holds a BIC and 1 does not.
Including Sygnum Bank AG.
See the Sygnum Bank AG group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- 3 FRASER STREET #04-22 DUO TOWER 189352, Singapore, 189352
- Country
- Singapore
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.
- Identified by
- Name and postal address, with its LEI
- Postal address
- Hybrid: town, postcode and country in their own elements, the rest in two address lines
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>9845002DF69C3D82D045</LEI>
<Nm>SYGNUM PTE. LTD.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>189352</PstCd>
<TwnNm>Singapore</TwnNm>
<Ctry>SG</Ctry>
<AdrLine>3 FRASER STREET #04-22 DUO TOWER</AdrLine>
<AdrLine>189352</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>- The address line repeats the town or postcode. Remove the repeat if your payment system rejects it.
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Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Register for this page
- MAS Financial Institutions Directory - Major Payment Institution—Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) · source ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, authorisation, partners, products, leadership and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the firm's own website, terms and filings, regulators' registers and notices, company registers and news. Licences, partners, figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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