Gubbi AG, a specialist in blockchain and thus in the field of digital assets, particularly digitalized asset values, and digatus it group AG, a full-service IT provider. Both complement each other ideally: Gubbi benefits from additional IT expertise, while digatus benefits from Gubbi AG’s industry knowledge and network.
Gubbi AG develops financial products based on blockchain technology and is jointly responsible for their distribution to banks, financial service providers, and digital platforms in Germany and, since mid-2024, also in Austria. To meet the increasing demand for IT development, the strategic partnership with digatus it group AG accelerates the implementation of the product roadmap.
Together, the companies aim to develop certified software solutions for financial product brokerage for digital sales channels such as neobrokers, digital subscription processes for issuing houses, liability umbrellas, and for portfolio management including interfaces (keyword: Open-Finance). These will be optimally tailored to practice and for personal and digital sales as users. The plans for joint collaboration already extend beyond the year 2025.
"Stephan Bals and his team are valued for their IT expertise not only in the German market but already in other EU countries as well. We are pleased to be able to use the flexibility in the new cooperation to implement individual and tailored solutions for our customers and their needs with the necessary speed in Germany and Austria."
"We are an innovative yet tradition-conscious IT partner for our customers. This is not a contradiction for us. Therefore, we are pleased about the connection to Gubbi AG, the blockchain experts for digital assets in Germany, which opens up further perspectives in innovative markets for both companies and will thus benefit our customers."
About Gubbi AG
Gubbi AG, with its entire team, combines many years of banking and capital market expertise as well as experience from the finance and insurance industry with deep technological understanding through well-founded know-how in digitalization and practical applications based on blockchain.
The founders laid the foundation in 2022 to build up the market for digital assets in Germany and Europe with Gubbi AG’s business model, thus bridging the gap from the traditional banking world to a digitalized, blockchain-based financial world.
In doing so, Gubbi AG sees itself as a partner for the financial industry in the following two core business areas:
- The structuring and development of products that sustainably offer more flexibility and performance and meet regulatory requirements.
- The provision of individualized technological applications tailored to the respective needs of issuers, distributors, and their customers (white-label apps).
About digatus it group AG
As an IT service group, digatus offers all core elements of the digital value chain from a single source with its specialized units and industry focus. Whether consulting or technology projects, software development or IT service and operational scenarios, the team of motivated and experienced consultants, administrators, and software architects works with great enthusiasm and passion for the sustainable success of national and international medium-sized companies and corporations.
digatus purposefully applies its know-how to find pragmatic, tailor-made, and technologically state-of-the-art solutions for its customers’ IT and digitalization projects. digatus sees itself as a travel companion that accompanies customers on their IT journey, jointly mastering current technological challenges, establishing modern methods and processes, and making companies sustainably fit for future requirements in an increasingly digitalized world.
Stephan Bals
He studied Business Administration with a focus on Management at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. After completing his studies as a graduate in Business Administration, he began his career at Siemens AG in Munich.
Early in his career, he gained experience in various executive positions. Among other roles, he was responsible as managing director for medium-sized IT consulting and service companies, most recently Xiopia GmbH, as well as serving on the board of Allgeier IT Solutions AG. With the founding of digatus it group, he continued his career as a founder and entrepreneur. In early 2015, together with Felix Kirschner, he founded digatus it group AG with the goal of "building" a market-relevant IT service provider in Germany. His main focus within the digatus Group is in the areas of sales, growth management, and M&A. At the interfaces between business and IT, he is a sought-after mediator, sparring partner, and idea generator.
In addition to his role as CEO of digatus it group AG, he is involved entrepreneurially as a co-founder and investor, volunteers in various non-profit initiatives and associations, and serves as an advisory board member, senior advisor, and supervisory board member.
