UnionTrust Overview
We power success across the financial world for individuals and institutions through unique insights, strategic thinking, and decisive actions. UnionTrust is well-known in the industry for professional investment and fund management. Most importantly, we are a reliable long-term partner for our clients. UnionTrust has established itself across nearly all asset classes, offering clients the best investment opportunities. Since 2016, we have provided geographical, asset, and risk diversification through regulated funds and single-asset mandates, consistently delivering positive and competitive returns for institutional investors. As one of the world's leading trading and asset management firms, UnionTrust serves 24 million private and corporate customers in over 60 countries. Our clients depend on an investment process tested in virtually every market environment. We respond to the ideas and wishes of our clients, providing expert advice and support to help realize their individual investment goals. Long-term relationships with employees and clients are crucial to our entrepreneurial success. These relationships are built on trust in UnionTrust as a reliable partner. We empower our employees to perform their duties to the best of their abilities and take pride in our partnership-based corporate culture, ensuring sustainable benefits for our investors.
OUR PLATFORM
HISTORY
Entrepreneurship and an industrial approach have been at the core of the UnionTrust business model since the beginning, focusing on sustainable portfolio company development. Since our founding in 2016, we have attributed our market success to a value-oriented corporate culture emphasizing long-term returns. We are committed to sustainable investments and long-term partnerships, collaborating with expert brokers, project developers, and operators who share our interests. Through co-investments, we enable clients to participate directly in diverse markets.
UnionTrust has transformed into a differentiated European leader in private markets with a global focus, raising EUR 15 billion in assets and investing in over 240 portfolio companies across 31 separate funds. Our investment-led culture serves institutional investors, private banks, and family offices, employing original research and rigorous analysis in our Global, Multi-Asset, and Specialist strategies.
In our first two years, we built a global client base, financing trade between America and Europe and funding major infrastructure projects like railways and power stations. By early 2018, we had established clients across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and by 2019, we expanded into major financial markets, including Hong Kong, Japan, and Australia. In 2019, we further diversified our offerings by entering private markets, Forex trading, and launching four new cannabis farms worldwide. Today, we are active in 6-7 diverse markets, opening new dimensions for our clients.
Our mission
INVESTING TO GROW
Acquisitions have always been part of our growth story, adding key capabilities and helping us to meet the evolving needs of our clients and drive growth in an ever-changing world.
With more than a dozen transactions since 2016, we’ve expanded our expertise in private assets, from real estate to infrastructure financing and a visible expansion in expertise concentrating in the Cannabis, Forex and Crypto segments. We’ve expanded our wealth management offering, including a market-leading offering for financial advisers. And we’ve grown our specialist expertise in solutions, where we aim to be the provider of choice for pension schemes, offering an end-to-end solution through to buy-out.
Our secret to success? We only make acquisitions that fit with our overall culture and values. It’s about adding to our expertise, rather than simply buying for growth.
OUR DNA
A GLOBAL
NETWORK OF PARTNERSHIP
Partnerships have further broadened our horizons, coupling our investment expertise with our clients’ distribution networks, to meet the needs of their customers. Our partnership strategy gives us access to new distribution opportunities around the world, including some of the world’s highest growth markets.
Like our 2018 joint venture with the Bank of Communications in China, And our recently-established joint venture with Lloyds Banking Group, which employs over 600 financial advisors all across Europe.
Our investing goes beyond profit We’re proud to say we were ahead of the curve when it comes to sustainability, publishing our first responsible investment policy in 2016.
Our role as an active investment manager gives us the ability to drive significant change while protecting our clients’ capital from the long-term risks. In 2019, we fully integrated environmental, social and governance – or ESG – analysis into all our investment strategies.
These moves support our ongoing strategy of helping our clients meet their investment goals – all while playing our part in accelerating to a poverty free and decarbonised future.
Our shareholders
Backed by leading institutional investors.
Board of Directors
Adrien
Treccani
Founder & CEO
Francisco Fernandez
Founder & Chairman
Alex
Manson
GLOBAL HEAD
Olivier
Laplace
Investment Director
David
Fenand
Chief Financial Officer
Our mission
We aim to enable financial and non-financial institutions of all sizes to manage digital assets with the highest security and flexibility.
Our values
Integrity, Quality, Passion. At METACO we put our customers first. We strive to deliver best-in-class products and services that help our clients achieve customer and business success.
Our mission
At UNIONTRUST, we lay the foundations to transform the financial services industry by building the digital asset infrastructure that will revolutionize finance for generations to come.
Our values
Integrity, Quality, Passion. At UNIONTRUST we put our customers first. We strive to deliver best-in-class products and services that help our clients achieve customer and business success.
Management team
PURPOSE AND VALUES
Our purpose is to future-proof companies and make a positive impact. We aim to be the most reputable investor and owner by leveraging the best talent and networks globally. We prioritize our clients' interests, ensuring transparency and integrity in all practices. UnionTrust fosters a culture of integrity, financial strength, technical competence, operational excellence, and talent development. Our commitment to a client-focused approach drives us to adapt our strategies to meet client needs while delivering superior results.
UnionTrust is also proud to be a member of several organizations driving the responsible development of distributed ledger technology in the financial services industry.
MPC Alliance
The Network Forum
Global Digital Finance
FSBC
CMTA
CVA
SFA
SFTA
digitalSwitzerland
SBS
Innovaud
Our strategic committment
COMMONALITY OF INTERESTS
In order to achieve commonality of interests with our clients, we pay strict attention to potential conflicts of interests, avoiding them if possible and dealing fairly with them if not. We put clients' interests ahead of our own and treat all clients equally. It is our fundamental operating principle that if all of our practices were to become known, there must be no one with grounds for complaint.
OUR APPROACH
We want our stakeholders to know that UnionTrust is a financially solid, trustworthy company that embraces sustainable business as good business. A company whose heart beats for its customers, and its employees. To achieve it, we adapt our business strategy to deliver the needs of our clients. It drives us forward by setting out what we want to achieve and how we will work together to deliver our goals across five key areas. Over the years, we continued to develop and implement our strategic approach, building on the five pillars of success – integrity, financial strength, technical competence, operational excellence and talent base.
RELENTLESSLY CLIENT-FOCUSED
We know it’s not enough to say we’re relentlessly client-focused—so we prove it every day, through adaptability, transparency and professionalism of the UnionTrust Team. It’s how we can proactively respond to environmental, social and governance developments, all while providing peerless client experiences.
POWERING THE FINANCIAL WORLD
Businesses, communities and global economies rely on us because we prioritize client experience, collaboration, innovation and resilience. As one of the best Trading and Assets management firm, our unique perspective, informed by one of the largest datasets in the world, powers the financial industry. At UnionTrust, we understand the best way to succeed at anything is to Consider Everything.
Similar to a conventional savings account, UNIONTRUST allows you to earn interest on your assets by using them to retail trading rigs.
However, the key difference is that we lend you our trading hashrate only on an overcollateralized basis. We keep our rates stable over time because of UNIONTRUST’s risk policy to never lend without collateral. Your funds are backed no matter how the market moves, practically eliminating risk.
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Deposit
Start Earning.
Your trading Plan, which in turn depends on the ratio of deposit Crypto against the balance of trading rig in our portfolio.
To receive Higher interest on your crypto, you have to choose higher trading rigs.
We are raising the bar for the entire blockchain space by utilizing the most rigorous KYC and AML policies, impeccable risk assessment, data protection, and enhanced cybersecurity.
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Locations
UNIONTRUST’s global headquarters are based in the historic city of Lausanne, Switzerland. The company also serves clients from its hubs located in United Kingdom.
Adrien Treccani, Ph.D.
CEO & Co-Founder
Adrien founded METACO in 2015 and now serves as CEO. He is a leading software engineer specialised in high performance computing and financial engineering.
A PhD graduate of the Swiss Finance Institute where his doctoral thesis conducted a High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market, he has been an active member of the fintech community since 2012, and has advised numerous banks, hedge funds and associations on distributed ledger technology.
He lectures at the École Polytechnique de Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Lausanne in cryptography and the financial applications of blockchain and has been published in leading international peer-reviewed finance journals.
Adrien has co-authored the book ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, and Economics’, a detailed and self-contained introduction to the founding principles behind blockchain, DLTs and cryptocurrencies, for professionals operating in quantitatively-oriented fields such as mathematics, computer science, finance, economics, banking, and supply chain management.
Jessica More
Head of Staff
Jessica is Head of Staff at METACO, where she is responsible for the management of the HR and Administration departments. She also acts as a supervisor in the areas of finance and communication, and directly supports the Executive Board and Board of Directors.
Jessica has over ten years experience in HR, administration and analytical reporting at a management level for IT services companies. She previously worked as an Executive Assistant for the consulting group, Simalaya, which grew from 25 to 100 employees, and was acquired by IT consulting giant Sword Group. Jessica actively supported the operations side of this transition and led the administration of multiple units including payroll, invoicing, analytical reporting as well as directly assisting the Managing Director.
Andre Israel
Chief Operating Officer
Andre joined METACO in February 2021 and serves as COO. Responsible for customer delivery, support, and day to day operations, Andre’s expertise is in helping technology companies to scale.
Prior to joining METACO, Andre was Accenture’s Core Banking Lead. He is also former CEO of SOFGEN, a banking consultancy company which he led for 10 years, where together with the management team he grew the business six-fold.
Resident in Switzerland for the past three decades, Andre has significant experience in strategy formulation and execution, general management, business transformation and M&A. He holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with a speciality in Computer Science.
Seamus Donoghue
VP STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Seamus has extensive domain expertise in investment banking, wealth management, commodities and crypto markets that spans market structure, regulation and technology.
He spent 20 years building and managing trading operations across all the global financial centres with JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Since 2011 he has been active as a founder, leader, and investor in fintech and crypto projects including founding Allocated Bullion Solutions, an award winning open architecture technology platform for wholesale precious metals risk management and distribution automation, and as the Asia managing director of the Swiss digital asset exchange Lykke.
Nicolas Dorier
VP Digital Currencies & Founder
Vincent Bouzon
VP Engineering
Vincent is VP of Engineering at METACO. He has 10+ years experience in managing engineering teams across industries, including finance, health and security. This vast expertise has enabled him to create scalable environments to fit market needs. As a former developer, Vincent started his career at Arcan Systems, a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) company in the healthcare space. As CTO, he led the engineering team’s research and development, and then subsequently served as CEO, where he created and led the organization’s growth strategy. Prior to joining METACO, Vincent held senior positions at Up Group and Sodexo, two established money issuance companies delivering new payment methods. Vincent has been passionate about IT development and security since his childhood, which has transformed to a keen interest in cryptocurrency and distributed systems.
Craig Perrin
VP SALES
Craig brings over 25 years of experience within investment banking, extensively in sales and relationship management roles on a global basis.
Working closely with clients, to develop a strong track record in managing successful relationships and partnerships, Craig has undertaken senior roles based in Asia, USA, UK and Europe.
Craig has a wide expertise in Securities Services infrastructure, across multiple asset types, as well as Clearing, Global Custody, Client Management and leading the buying process as Head of Network Management.
Most recently Craig was based in New York and was responsible for the global sales strategy and the Americas region on behalf of Standard Chartered bank.
Johannes Kaske
SALES DIRECTOR, GERMANY
David Fenand
Chief Financial Officer
Cindy Cocozza
TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER
Cindy is Talent Acquisition Manager at METACO. As an experienced recruitment and HR manager, she is highly specialized in the acquisition of leading IT engineers.
With over six years of experience in recruitment, she previously worked for international consulting, services and software company, Sword, where she managed the recruitment, onboarding and mentoring processes for experienced engineers in the areas of software development and project management. Cindy graduated from L’Institut de Gestion Sociale (IGS) in Paris with a Master in Human Resources.
Dario Duran
Solution Architect
Dario joined METACO in April 2021 and serves as its Solution Architect, responsible for building and scaling the Business Solutions and Technology Infrastructure organizations.
Dario has recently assisted SIX Digital Exchange as Functional Head for Crypto@SIX. He was previously Director, Custody Storage & Transaction Banking at SEBA Bank, the Swiss challenger bank providing financial products and services focused on crypto currencies and digital assets. Before, he was part of the founding team and Head of Operations at Shift Cryptosecurity, an ETH spin-off providing a Swiss-made hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies.
He is a CISSP- and ITIL 4-certified cybersecurity and IT service management specialist, with expertise built over 20 years in various roles in private, investment and crypto banking, asset management and venture capital.
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