BOREL UAE · Switzerland · Global

Building at the intersection of digital assets, banking and technology.

Operator · Advisor · Connector

I help founders, financial institutions, family offices and investors navigate complex opportunities across banking, digital assets, capital and cross-border markets.

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Strategic access · Capital and opportunities · Digital assets for family offices · AI-enabled execution · Board and strategic roles

Built regulated banking operations in ADGM Institutional Digital Assets Private Banking & OTC UAE · Switzerland · Global Banking · Payments · Regulation Founder & Operator

01 — How I Can Help

How I can help.

I work selectively on situations where my experience, relationships or operating businesses can create meaningful leverage.

Strategic Access

Getting banked and staying banked, digital assets, market entry and regulation across the UAE, Switzerland, Europe and APAC.

Opening bank accounts Structure review & debanking risk Market entry & regulatory navigation Strategic introductions

Typical engagement A banking-readiness review — the structure a bank will be asked to approve, the evidence compliance will want before it asks, and which institutions suit the business — then introductions.

Discuss Banking or Market Entry

Switzerland ↔ UAE

Considering your next move in Switzerland or the UAE?

I'm Swiss, previously lived and worked in Zug and Zurich, and am now based in Abu Dhabi. I help founders and businesses explore opportunities across both markets, understand where there is a fit, and connect with relevant local contacts and specialists.

Business fit · Market entry · Strategic introductions

Capital & Opportunities

Fundraising, private opportunities, investor relationships and carefully selected strategic transactions.

Fundraising Investor access Private opportunities

Typical engagement A read on how the opportunity is positioned and who it should reach, then selected introductions where there is a fit.

Discuss Capital or an Opportunity

Family Office Digital Assets

Helping family offices and private investors understand and structure digital assets without unnecessary complexity.

Digital-asset strategy Banking & custody landscape Governance & provider evaluation

Typical engagement An orientation on custody, banking and governance: what the options are, what each costs you operationally, and which providers are worth the time.

Discuss Your Digital-Asset Strategy

AI Systems & Execution

Applying AI to operate, research and build specialist businesses with greater speed and a deliberately lean operating model.

AI-enabled operations Research and intelligence Specialist product development

Typical engagement A working session on how a small team actually runs this way — what he has automated across his own businesses, what is worth building first in yours, and where human judgment has to stay.

Discuss an Operating Challenge

Board & Strategic Roles

Selected board, advisory and executive mandates where my banking, digital-assets and cross-border experience is directly relevant.

Board appointments Strategic advisory Selected executive mandates

Typical engagement A defined scope and time commitment agreed before either side commits — most often on banking relationships, digital-asset strategy or entering the region.

Discuss a Board or Advisory Role

02 — The Record

Built in the real world.

$2.0B

Client assets brought in over six years

Across

Credit Suisse Bank Frick Falcon Private Bank SEBA / AMINA Bank AG

ADGM

Regulated banking operations

Banking → Digital Assets

Institutional operating experience

UAE · Switzerland · Global

Cross-border market experience

Since 2018

Institutional digital-asset experience

03 — Ask Borel

What are you working on?

Describe the situation, opportunity or problem in your own words. You do not need to know which part of the business it belongs to.

It takes about a minute and reaches me directly. I read every one and decide myself whether there is a fit — nothing is passed to anyone else without me.

Who I work with

Founders entering complex markets
Financial institutions navigating digital assets
Family offices adapting to digital assets
Companies seeking banking or regulatory strategy
Businesses raising or deploying strategic capital
Investors evaluating private opportunities
Boards requiring specialist cross-border experience
Operators seeking AI-enabled execution

I work selectively where there is a clear strategic fit, credible counterparties and a defined outcome.

You're enquiring about Strategic Access

First, which best describes you?

Your request

04 — The Execution Layer

The execution layer.

Borel.xyz is my personal front door. It communicates, establishes fit and routes opportunities. Where specialist execution is required, the opportunity is handled by the appropriate operating business.

Alpine Cipher

Strategic Advisory

Banking, digital assets, market entry and regulatory strategy.

726 Digital

Private Deal Desk

Capital relationships, private opportunities and selected strategic transactions.

By introduction

House of Borel

Private Office & Venture Portfolio

Private-office oversight and representation of the venture portfolio.

By introduction

ProofRail

Verification Infrastructure

Independent verification infrastructure for digital businesses.

PulsePing

Regulatory Intelligence

Regulatory intelligence for digital assets and financial markets.

In development

Alpine Gate

Discovery & Intelligence

Company discovery and ecosystem intelligence.

41971

UHNW Verification

Source of Wealth verification for UHNW principals across the Swiss-UAE corridor.

Operating structure

20Twenty5 Holdings: owns.
House of Borel: oversees and represents.
Borel.xyz: communicates and routes.
Operating businesses: execute.

Borel.xyz does not provide regulated services, hold client funds or execute transactions.

05 — Momentum

From banking to digital assets to operating.

Years spent operating inside the problems these businesses now exist to solve.

Connect

Private Banking

Credit Suisse · Falcon Private Bank
Pocketlife

Switzerland's first concierge and lifestyle management company, and where most of the network still traces back to.

Digital Assets

Institutional Crypto & OTC

Falcon Private Bank · Bank Frick
Digital-asset banking infrastructure

SEBA / AMINA Bank AG
Regulated digital-asset banking operations

SEBA / AMINA Bank AG · Bank Frick · Falcon Private Bank

Senior Executive Officer of AMINA Bank AG's ADGM branch, 2021–2024.

Worked with institutions supervised by

ADGM · Abu Dhabi FINMA · Switzerland FMA · Liechtenstein MAS · Singapore VARA · Dubai
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Operating

Alpine Cipher

Strategic Advisory
726 Digital

Private Deal Desk
House of Borel

Private Office & Venture Portfolio
ProofRail

Verification Infrastructure
Alpine Gate

Discovery & Intelligence

Building

PulsePing

Regulatory Intelligence
41971

UHNW Verification

06 — The Operating Model

Multiple businesses. One AI-native operating system.

I use AI across research, product development, regulatory intelligence, opportunity assessment and business operations. The objective is not to sell AI as a novelty. It is to operate specialist businesses with greater speed, consistency and leverage.

— AI-assisted research and intelligence
— Lean product development
— Structured opportunity routing
— Shared operating infrastructure
— Human judgment at every material decision

07 — Borel Briefings

Notes from inside the problems I build against.

Occasional writing on banking, digital assets, regulation, technology and cross-border markets.

UAE vs Switzerland for Digital-Asset Businesses

Stablecoins Are Becoming Banking Infrastructure

Digital Assets

Why Cross-Border Introductions Still Matter in an AI World

Family Offices

All briefings

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Occasional notes on banking, digital assets, regulation, technology and cross-border markets.

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08 — Ask About Me

Ask about me.

Questions about background, markets and experience, answered from my published record.

Answers draw only on approved published material.

This answers from my published background. It is an interface to that record, not me.

Independently verifiable

ADGM public register LinkedIn Press coverage is linked beneath the answers it supports.

09 — Work With Me

Work with me.

I work selectively with founders, financial institutions, family offices, investors and boards where my experience, relationships or operating platform can create meaningful leverage.

Advisory · Capital · Family Offices · Board Roles · Strategic Projects · Partnerships

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