B2B Banking

B2B Banking

Riviera makes it easy for banks to offer clients digital assets

Secure, reliable, tailored access the dynamic digital asset market requires specialist expertise and flexible solutions. Riviera’s modular, FINMA-regulated all-in-one access lets you do this. Provide custody and trading, or specialised investments and asset tokenization. Riviera supports over 20 partner banks in private, retail and universal banking globally, so they can focus on growing strong client relationships.

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Security

Store your clients’ digital assets with institutional-grade trust, instant 24/7 access, held off balance sheet, with no capital underpinning and no counterparty risk to Riviera.

Modular access in less than 60 days

Access Riviera’s entire product suite in just 60 days. Get fast time-to-market with Riviera's suite of banking services through one entry point, including accounts, payments and custody, brokerage, tokenization, lending and asset management.

Scale and automate

The seamless API integration empowers established financial institutions to position themselves as innovation leaders, while automating processes and scaling their business.

seamless Digital asset banking

Access the universe of crypto assets with secure, convenient digital asset banking services that you can trust.

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Trading

Professional 24/7 trading on the crypto markets with Riviera’s secure infrastructure, deep liquidity and expertise.

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Staking

Staking puts your crypto assets to work, generating an environmentally friendly yield from selected crypto assets.

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Custody

Access a wide range of digital assets instantly, anywhere in the world with Riviera’s institutional-grade custody solution for digital assets.

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Lending

Access cost-efficient credit solutions using crypto assets or mining hashrate as collateral.

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Crypto compliance and RegTech

Banks and VASPs can expand their crypto offering by relying on Riviera's extensive knowledge and experience in Crypto AML and RegTech. Riviera's RegTech and Crypto Compliance Services Team enables financial intermediaries to offer crypto services to their clients in a regulated, compliant and technology-efficient environment.

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C-AML tool

Banks and VASPs benefit from Riviera’s state-of-the-art crypto transaction monitoring tool “C-AML”. This tool provides a regulatory compliant crypto transaction monitoring process, which covers the Travel Rule and unhosted wallets.

Crypto compliance services

Banks and VASPs can add crypto asset services in a diligent and compliant manner and benefit from Riviera’s specialised legal, compliance and regulatory expertise in blockchain and crypto assets.

Crypto compliance education

Enabling employees with the right legal, compliance and regulatory skillset, as well as building crypto asset expertise, is a key step in developing a digital asset offering. Riviera provides tailored workshops that cover current and critical industry developments for banks and VASPs.

Tokenization

Riviera's team of corporate finance, DLT, legal and regulatory experts advises issuers on all aspects of a tokenization project. This enables an industry-leading technology solution that covers the entire tokenization value chain and creates unique investment opportunities for investors.

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Desygnate

Desygnate is Riviera’s primary market issuance platform. It covers the legal and financial structuring activities for the underlying asset, the token minting, as well as the subscription and issuance process.

SygnEx

RivieraEx is Riviera’s secondary market trading facility for tokenized assets. Both issuers and investors benefit from increased liquidity and a standardised exit opportunity for acquired assets.

Riviera education

Growing expertise and experience with digital assets can be accelerated with Riviera as a trusted partner. Both quality and delivery are assured, thanks to Riviera's wide range of regulated solutions and services, expertise and state-of-the-art digital asset infrastructure.

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Partners

Read more to learn how each of these partner banks is working with digital assets. Riviera supports over 20 partner banks in private, retail and universal banking globally, so they can focus on growing strong client relationships.

“We are proud to be the first Swiss cantonal bank to seamlessly integrate traditional and crypto assets on our platform and make these future-ready investments available to our customers. Our partnership with Riviera to build this advanced infrastructure is a solid foundation for our future development.”

Hanspeter Rhyner

CEO, Zuger Kantonalbank

“Luzerner Kantonalbank AG continues to support its customers as a reliable partner and with innovative solutions. That’s why we have worked and built up in-house expertise for secure custody, transfer and trading of crypto and digital assets. Riviera, Wyden and Fireblocks are providing us with crucial technology.”

Marcel Hurschler

CFO, LUKB Luzerner Kantonalbank

“Digital assets have become an integral part of the financial world, and our customers want access to this market from PostFinance, their trusted principal bank. A reputable and established partner like Riviera Bank with an excellent service offering is more important than ever.”

Philipp Merkt

CIO, PostFinance

“The ability for banks to innovate and continually expand client choice is key to staying competitive and being future ready. Our B2B platform enables this at speed and with full compliance for Bison Digital Assets. This represents another trusted node in the expanding European crypto ecosystem, and we look forward to partnering with banks and bank-backed VASPs that empower their end-clients to invest in crypto with complete trust.”

António Henriques

CEO, Bison Digital Assets

“VZ VermögensZentrum is always interested in innovative solutions in the field of finance to enhance competitiveness and cater for fast-changing client needs. The cooperation with Riviera offers us an opportunity to incorporate the company’s perspective into the further development of the products on offer and empowers our customers to invest in this new asset class in a convenient, secure and regulated setting.”

Marc Weber

CEO, VZ Depotbank

“We have seen increasing demand from our clients to diversify into alternative asset classes such as digital assets. By partnering with Riviera Bank, we are providing our clients with a one-stop, integrated solution while empowering them to invest in this new, high growth asset class with complete trust.”

Evrard Bordier

Managing Partner, Bordier & Cie SCmA

FAQ

For more information on our product offering, or to discuss a potential partnership, please contact the B2B banking team   here .

Our modular “plug-n-play” services allows banks and VASPs to enable digital assets for their clients in less than 60 days. However, the starting point of our B2B partners is not always the same; many banks want to expand their investment offering by adding cryptocurrencies, others prefer to start with tokenization and make non-bankable assets bankable e.g. for succession planning, art, real estate and lending opportunities.

Whatever the partner banks’ strategic goals, once onboarded with Riviera they can leverage any part of Riviera’s offering to provide new products and services to their clients. Our partners typically start by expand their client offering via one or all of Riviera’s “plug-n-play” services, and then drive efficiency and operational skills via our automated processes, crypto compliance tools and open APIs. Learn more about these services here

Our B2B services feature modular “plug-n-play” functionality to Riviera's full suite of integrated banking services, including bank-grade custody, brokerage, tokenization, lending and asset management. This includes dedicated Bank-to-Bank integration via APIs, crypto compliance advisory and education services, automated tools and tailored financial products. 

Riviera’s B2B team offers digital assets services for private, universal and retail banks as well as VASPs. We act as a trusted advisor and partner, supporting them to be the trusted gateway between traditional and digital assets for their clients, and through this, empowering them to retain and strengthen client relationships.

Partners can choose to deploy any of Riviera’s modular offerings to meet their client needs – whether they are integrated banking services like buying, selling or the secure custody of funds, or specific services like making non-bankable assets bankable via tokenization. 

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