FINMA-supervised AMINA enables institutional investors to access a privacy-preserving network supporting digital asset custody, collateral flows, and compliant on-chain settlements.
In Switzerland’s system of semi-autonomous cantons, local rules operate under a shared national framework. That same federated idea is now being applied to digital infrastructure for capital markets, as a Swiss-regulated bank connects its clients to a public blockchain.
On 6 May 2026, a bank supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) began offering custody and trading for the native token — whose name is derived from Switzerland’s cantons — of this capital-markets-focused blockchain.
— of this capital-markets-focused blockchain.
The institution, AMINA Bank AG, serves professional investors and organizations exploring tokenization, collateral management, and new settlement workflows. However, many of its corporate clients struggle with fragmented digital-asset infrastructure, unsupervised custody arrangements, and uncertainty around how to use public networks while still having to meet regulatory expectations on privacy, compliance, and settlement finality.
To close this gap, the bank has positioned itself as a single regulated entry point to the on-chain capital markets ecosystem built on this network. The goal is to reduce operational friction for market participants, including validator nodes and institutions running tokenization or settlement workflows, while keeping governance and risk controls within familiar banking oversight. Key technical elements of the deployment include:
- Use of a public, privacy-preserving blockchain optimized for capital markets use cases such as repo, lending, and wrapped asset flows
- Integration of institutional-grade digital asset custody into an existing banking regulatory framework
- On-chain settlement workflows that embed compliance and privacy constraints for regulated participants
- Support for collateral and tokenization processes that link traditional financial instruments to blockchain-based representations
AMINA’s Chief Product Officer, Myles Harrison, said the initiative reflects a broader shift in digital assets: “Infrastructure that has been purpose-built for regulated institutions, not retrofitted, is starting to shape how our clients think about the next chapter of institutional finance.”
According to Viv Diwakar, Head, Canton Foundation, said the Canton Coin blockchain is “designed with privacy, compliance, and settlement finality embedded into its architecture, offering participants a supervised home for their holdings and activity on-chain.”
This case study illustrates how regulated institutions can use a public, privacy‑preserving blockchain to run tokenization, custody, and settlement workflows on-chain while remaining within existing compliance and supervisory frameworks.
