“Guess what! One BTC is still one BTC, but all the other assets are deprecating against Bitcoin,” said Romain Braud, Head of Digital Assets at Arab Bank Switzerland. “So it’s a race to accumulate Bitcoin right now. And the race already started for the people awakened from the financial system.”
“Bitcoin probably is becoming, for early investors, a gold standard, like the new gold reserve,” he added.
Braud took to stage during the Nordic Blockchain Association on 18 June 2025 and said, “So the reality is Bitcoin is widespread among not only the crypto believers but also institutions and all the sophisticated investors. Bitcoin is probably one of the assets that you should have in your portfolio. And right now we have a limited supply.”
“Between 2024 and this year, in one year US printed like one trillion. So there is a debasement on the currency. And there is a new debasement coming with this ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ probably.”
“Bitcoin is a passive asset,” he said.
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Institutional digital asset management company, XBTO, announced a strategic partnership with Arab Bank Switzerland on 19 June 2025. This will enable the Swiss private bank “to launch a sophisticated Bitcoin yield product for its wealth management clients.”
“We have seen growing demand from our wealth management clients for ways to generate yield on their Bitcoin holdings within a properly managed risk framework,” said Braud.
The collaboration leverages XBTO’s proprietary “Diamond Hands” strategy to provide Arab Bank Switzerland’s clientele with an actively managed approach to generating yield on their Bitcoin holdings.
Karl Naim, Chief Commercial Officer and General Manager for UAE at XBTO said, “Arab Bank Switzerland’s six-year digital asset infrastructure development, combined with direct client demand for Bitcoin yield products, created the perfect foundation for this collaboration.”
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“When we talk about Bitcoin yield, it’s simple, put your assets to work in a very safe controlled audited environment, right? And this partnership is all about it.”
“On the bank perspective, it’s really important to to step back and look at what we are,” said Braud. “We protect assets, we protect execution and also we protect the privacy of our clients. And these are the three pillars basically of the whole offering.”
“Financial institution adopting Bitcoin, it’s a no-brainer now. We saw the ETF success last year.”
“We have to do our duty and we have to make sure that we build in a very secure stable environment, and especially in Switzerland when the legal framework is already there since 2014,” the head of digital assets at the Arab Bank Switzerland said. “We have segregated assets, off balance sheet – digital assets that are fully protected because they are off balance sheet. So basically, client can audit the assets directly on chain or they can look at it as they can look at the blockchain.”
“What we will see is – probably some other banks like us – following this trend of Bitcoin accumulation. There are three ways to do that. The first one is internally – you do all the setup internally from the custody, trading, execution and and so on. The second one is completely delegated to an asset manager, but you don’t have much control. You have to really trust the counterparty. And the third one is the solution that we have chosen- is basically team up with one of the best in class, who has a long track record, and make sure that we do the custody, we secure the execution and they manage the execution. And this way we have a secure, controlled environment for our clients.”
Key Takeaways
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Institutional digital asset management company, XBTO, announced a strategic partnership with Arab Bank Switzerland, to launch a sophisticated Bitcoin yield product for its wealth management clients.
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The partnership is part of a broader trend of banks integrating structured BTC yield products into wealth management services.
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