Arab Bank Switzerland

Clients buy and sell cryptocurrencies directly in the banking app or leave the trades to the bank under a discretionary mandate. The range includes bitcoin, ether and solana as well as the DeFi tokens Aave, Chainlink and Uniswap. The bank collects prices from several large exchanges and market makers and splits medium and large orders with an algorithm.

For proof-of-stake networks the bank runs staking on Ethereum and Solana, so clients earn rewards on coins they keep in their custody account. The bank names entrepreneurs, miners, long-term holders, traders, family offices, foundations and institutional clients as the users of its crypto services.

The Diamond Hands Fund aims to add bitcoin when prices fall, using options and volatility management, while it keeps the bitcoin principal intact. Arab Bank Switzerland created the fund with the crypto investment firm XBTO, which manages it, while the bank holds and monitors the assets.

Clients can also take crypto-backed loans against bitcoin or ether, for example to buy real estate, at a loan-to-value ratio of up to 40 percent. Specialists of the bank draw up estate plans for digital assets, and bank statements give auditors and tax advisers a reconciled record of every crypto position.

The bank holds digital assets on its own premises with Taurus-PROTECT from Taurus, keeps them separate for each client and books them off its balance sheet. Its custody features are certified at FIPS Level 3, and key generation and key management carry an ISAE 3402 Type II report.

On 16 April 2026 the bank launched Digital Explorer, an app for iOS, Android and the web that shows market dashboards with on-chain analytics, a portfolio view across several blockchains, a news feed sorted by AI and a gallery for NFTs. The data refreshes every five minutes, and clients see their wallets and their custody positions in one place.

In 2022 the bank started the ABS Digital Art Prize, which it describes as the first prize of its kind for NFT art, and it keeps an on-chain collection of digital art. The 2025 prize for artist of the year went to Anna Ridler and Sofia Crespo.

On 10 December 2025 Arab Bank (Switzerland) Middle East Ltd. received an in-principle approval for an advisory license from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of ADGM, the financial center of Abu Dhabi. The bank wants to advise clients in the region on digital assets, and in 2026 it opened ABS (Middle East) in the Burj Daman tower in Dubai.

The head office is at Place de Longemalle 10-12, 1204 Geneva, and the Zurich office is at Uraniastrasse 14, 8001 Zurich. In 2023 the bank took a majority stake in the private bank Gonet & Cie after FINMA approved the deal, and in 2025 Gonet merged with ONE swiss bank. The ABS Group of Arab Bank Switzerland and Gonet manages almost CHF 20 billion and has more than 400 staff.

Yves Spörri has been chief executive officer since 1 January 2026 and came from Banque Cantonale de Genève. Rani Jabban, deputy CEO, started the digital asset business and still leads it together with treasury, financial institutions and marketing, and Wahbé A. Tamari chairs the board.