You all know the story. Crypto and banks don’t get along: frozen wires, awkward questions, accounts closed without a word.

I work for a regulated financial intermediary in Geneva whose job is reducing that friction. We’ve helped over 400 crypto millionaires into Swiss and Monaco private banks, and very few of them had tidy histories (because easy stories are able to obtain an account easily), here are some examples of the kind of profiles that I have helped:

Early miners with no receipts, just old hardware and pool accounts (or solo miners)

Early buyers whose records died with Mt. Gox, BTC-e, Cryptopia etc

DeFi users with hundreds of thousands of transactions across a dozen chains

MEV and algorithmic traders whose P&L no compliance officer could read

ICO participants, and people who were simply paid in crypto for legitimate services

The money was clean, we don't take sketchy cases. What they lacked was a story a bank could follow.…