alt is a Geneva-based financial intermediary offering banking and compliance solutions. alt is supervised by the Swiss Financial Services Standards Association (VQF), a financial regulatory authority specialized in monitoring companies active in the FinTech industry, and audited by BDO. To view our VQF affiliation on the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) website, click here and enter Altcoinomy SA in the search bar.
In 2012, Olivier Cohen was already working with entrepreneurial families who were quietly experimenting with a new kind of asset: Bitcoin. He saw something most institutions didn't. While innovators were building the future, the financial system was still treating digital assets as an anomaly.
The turning point came when one of Olivier's long-standing clients made a perfectly legitimate request:
"I've made a significant gain in crypto. Can you help me bring it back into the banking system?"
What followed was months of friction. Banks didn't know how to classify digital wealth, compliance teams had no framework to evaluate it, and clients were being treated as if technological curiosity were a red flag. The issue was never the client. It was the system's inability to process a new form of value.
Olivier realised that if sophisticated investors were struggling to move their own money, the industry had a systemic gap. And that gap would only widen as digital assets became mainstream.
This is where alt began.
alt was created to solve the problem Olivier personally witnessed: the lack of a trusted, compliant mechanism to transform crypto-origin wealth into bankable, recognised capital.
What started as a specialised service for a handful of early adopters has grown into a full digital asset facilitation ecosystem: KYC/AML, prime brokerage, crypto due diligence reports, execution, project fundraising support, and bank account opening. All designed to meet the highest standards of compliance.
Expert professionals dedicated to providing world-class digital asset services.









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From startup to market leader - discover the milestones that shaped our company.
Founding of Altcoinomy • SRO membership granted by VQF
Founding of Altcoinomy • SRO membership granted by VQF
KYC/KYB/AML onboarding platform
KYC/KYB/AML onboarding platform
Wallet Recovery service rollout
Wallet Recovery service rollout
Transaction Volume Milestone hit
Transaction Volume Milestone hit
Rebranding to alt (www.alt.co) $328M in transaction volume recorded
Rebranding to alt (www.alt.co) $328M in transaction volume recorded
Contributed to successful settlements with Gemini and the NYAG and played a key role in resolving longstanding crypto-to-fiat impasse within the Estate
Contributed to successful settlements with Gemini and the NYAG and played a key role in resolving longstanding crypto-to-fiat impasse within the Estate
Surpassed 300 active UHNW clients
Surpassed 300 active UHNW clients
$544M in client transactions recorded
$544M in client transactions recorded
FinTech regulatory process ongoing
FinTech regulatory process ongoing
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