Tokenization
Create your own unique opportunities
Tokenization lets issuers create unique investment opportunities for investors. Riviera helps build this across the entire value chain with expert legal, regulatory, corporate finance and DLT advice.
Tokenization lets issuers create unique investment opportunities for investors. Riviera helps build this across the entire value chain with expert legal, regulatory, corporate finance and DLT advice.
When issuers offer investments as tokens listed on-chain with ownership in the underlying assets, fractional ownership in an asset becomes efficient and easy.
Issuers and investors have peace of mind with legal clarity over issuance and ownership. Riviera navigates the legal and regulatory requirements for you, with Swiss DLT law or abroad.
Tokenization with fractional ownership and lower ticket sizes makes investing in illiquid or hard-to-access assets possible for a wider range of investors.
Fractional ownership makes it easier to add tokenized assets to diversify a portfolio and to integrate all assets into a holistic portfolio view.
Desygnate is Riviera's primary market issuance platform. It simplifies the legal and financial structuring activities for the underlying asset, the token minting, as well as the subscription and issuance process.
Become a client to issue or investSygnEx is Riviera's secondary market trading facility for tokenized assets. Both issuers and investors benefit from increased liquidity and a standardised early exit opportunity for acquired assets.
Become a client to issue or investDiversify your portfolio by investing in seasoned investment opportunities in private debt and equity.
Diversify your investment and treasury strategies with allocations in tokenized traditional securities.
Get access to blue-chip art and other collectibles with fractional ownership.
We call the emergence of a trusted, secure and efficient digital asset economy “Future Finance”. See an example below of how we are making this a reality, built on our three pillars of trust, technology, together.
“At Hamilton Lane, we are committed to expanding access to private markets for a broader set of investors through digital assets, and to bringing greater usability and transparency through the use of technologies like the blockchain. Working with an innovative partner like Riviera has enabled us to deliver a new DLT share class in our Global Private Assets fund, a project which represents a significant milestone in the industry.”
Victor Jung
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets at Hamilton Lane
“The issuance of the Float token – the first private debt asset token – required the close collaboration of experts in B2B lending, securitisation and tokenization, such as Riviera, to make it a reality. It is this kind of interdisciplinary, innovative partnership that will transform the face of traditional finance in the future.”
Cedric Notz
CEO and Co-Founder of Float
“In my 37 years of collecting art, I never imagined this could happen. Artistic, cultural objects of universal appeal, once reserved for an elite group of collectors or the museums, can now be safely and directly owned without the burden of high entry barriers. This includes information, knowledge, connections, and capital. The art market is absurdly opaque and inefficient, and these traits will soon be relics of a bygone age as tokenization grows. Riviera was the right partner for this big step in the history of art.”
Javier Lumbreras
Co-owner and CEO of Artemundi
“Riviera is your partner of choice to securely issue, store, trade and manage tokenized assets.”
Gabrielle Stewart
Head of AML Committee
Asset tokens can be bought through Riviera's tokenization platforms. Investors can either buy asset token through a subscription in the primary market via our issuance platform Desygnate or a buy order on our secondary trading marketplace SygnEx. Asset tokens can also be freely transferred to any investor on the Riviera banking platform
Asset tokens are secured and held in custody the same way protocol tokens like Bitcoin are. Riviera’s regulated multi-custody solution has been engineered to provide institutional-grade security, enabling our clients to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.
Generally, investments in all asset tokens on our platform are available to all Riviera clients. However, tailored permission solutions that let issuers manage investor participation can be set up.
In the unlikely case of a Riviera insolvency, Riviera clients are protected by law and covered by the esisuisse bank deposit protection scheme, up to a maximum of CHF 100,000 per client. Asset tokens and all other crypto assets are held off balance sheet by Riviera, and they are unaffected in the event of an insolvency. In this case, the tokens would be transferred to our clients’ external private wallets.
Asset tokens can be traded on SygnEx, Riviera’s regulated secondary market, which can be accessed via the Riviera banking portal by clicking “Trading” under the Tokenized assets section. On SygnEx, orders can be placed in the order book, or existing orders in the order book can be accepted. Automatic matching is not possible for regulatory reasons.
Transferring your security tokens to an external private wallet is not possible. Currently, only wallets held in custody by Riviera are whitelisted.
Riviera, a global digital asset banking group, is tokenising USD 50m of Matter Labs’ treasury reserves onto the zkSync blockchain. The Riviera-issued security tokens act as on-chain representations…
Lugano and Zurich, 14 June, 2024: PKB is pleased to announce its partnership with Riviera Bank, a global digital asset banking group, to offer its customers access to a regulated digital asset…
Zurich, 19 June, 2024 – Riviera, a global digital asset banking group; Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE), a leading global private markets investment management firm; and financial services firm…
