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AMINA Bank: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

AMINA Bank AG, formerly SEBA Bank, is a Swiss bank offering crypto custody, trading, lending, staking and investment products. The bank changed its name on 1 December 2023. Its Abu Dhabi branch is regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of the Abu Dhabi Global Market, and the group's Austrian entity, AMINA (Austria) AG, provides crypto-asset services under MiCA in the EU.

The bank is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and is authorised and regulated by the Swiss regulator FINMA under a banking and securities dealer licence received in 2019. The website names no majority shareholder or parent company. Its privacy policy cites the GDPR, but it also states that some service providers may process data in Switzerland or abroad, and that Google Analytics data is transferred to a Google server in the USA. For a European organisation, the transfers to foreign processors should be reviewed in the client contract.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Fintech & Neobanks
Type
Product
Website
aminagroup.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to AMINA Bank

The European alternatives to AMINA Bank come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with AMINA Bank

AMINA Bank is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

AMINA Bank hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

AMINA Bank is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs AMINA Bank together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to AMINA Bank?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to AMINA Bank include 1822direkt, ActivoBank and Air Bank. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to AMINA Bank?

Our list of EU alternatives to AMINA Bank is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is AMINA Bank GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

AMINA Bank is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes AMINA Bank an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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