UAE Vertix Holdings to build digital asset investment management partnership in ADGM UAE
Vertix Holdings, an Abu Dhabi-based investment group, and Iqana Technologies, a MiCA-regulated quantitative digital asset manager, have signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) to establish a digital asset investment management partnership in ADGM.
The intended digital asset investment management partnership is intended, subject to regulatory authorization in ADGM, to give family offices, professional investors and asset managers across the region access to institutional-grade, systematic digital asset strategies, built to the safeguarding and governance standards they expect.
Vertix noted that the partnership is part of their strategic move into one of the fastest growing areas in global finance where investor protection sits at its core under a non-custodial model. This way client assets remain in investors’ own accounts and are never commingled with the partnership’s operations, the same audit-ready discipline applied across every company in the group.
As for Iqana, the first crypto asset manager authorized by Spain’s CNMV under the EU’s MiCA framework, its strategies run on clients’ own accounts through trade-only access.As such, Iqana will contribute the technology, systematic investment strategies and risk-management framework at the heart of the partnership.
Amer Al Ahbabi, Chairman, Vertix Holdings noted, “With this venture, Vertix enters digital assets on the terms that define us: governed, transparent, and built to protect the investor. Establishing it in ADGM, alongside a regulated manager whose model keeps client assets in the client’s own hands, is exactly how a market this important should be approached.”
Quim Allard, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Iqana Technologies added, “For institutional investors, digital assets have long lacked what every other asset class takes for granted: regulated management, transparent processes and the certainty that their assets remain under their control. That is what Iqana was built to provide in Europe, and Abu Dhabi, one of the region’s leading financial hubs, is the natural place to explore bringing this model. In Vertix we have found a partner that shares our conviction: that digital assets have earned their place in institutional portfolios, and that governance is not a constraint on this market, but the condition for it to grow.”
