IMaps ETI AG, Europe's leading provider of actively managed crypto ETPs, is cooperating with comdirect - a Commerzbank brand - to offer private investors attractive savings plans on selected actively managed crypto ETPs in addition to one-time investments, effective immediately and for the first time in the German market. Investors can diversify their savings into crypto assets with small monthly payments starting at just 25 euros.

Missing interest returns, low flexibility and high ancillary costs are spoiling Germans' appetite for the savings products of previous generations: Savings books, fixed-term deposits and life insurance. Instead, a new form of long-term provision is enjoying ever-increasing popularity: savings plans on funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and ETPs. In Germany alone, there are now around three million ETP savings plans - and the trend is rising sharply. So far, however, the savings plans have a decisive disadvantage: although the range is broad, it is based almost exclusively on the major international financial indices for shares and bonds. Building up exposure to the crypto sector through a savings plan or adding small ongoing amounts to an ETP savings plan has only been possible to a limited extent so far. Savings plans on actively managed crypto ETPs have not been offered at all.

"With our initiative, we would like to make an active contribution to diversifying wealth creation in Germany even more broadly," says Andreas Wölfl, founder and Chairman of the Board of iMaps ETI AG, explaining the cooperation. "We are pleased that through the cooperation with comdirect we could create another opportunity for investors to benefit from the developments on the crypto markets."

Through savings plans, investors can particularly benefit from the compound interest effect. For example, anyone who invests 150 euros a month in a securities savings plan will receive a savings balance of just under 200,000 euros after 30 years at a realistic interest rate of 7.2% per year.

comdirect offers innovative and intelligent products to make banking and investment transactions even easier and more intuitive and has established itself as one of the leading providers of securities savings plans. Currently, more than one million savings plans are executed on a regular basis. The savings plan offering of comdirect on crypto ETPs has been continuously expanded since 2021 and now amounts to over 40 products.

"The expansion of the product range to include actively managed ETPs from iMaps goes hand in hand with a high level of interest from our customers. Because even if individual cryptocurrencies allow extreme price increases, professional investment strategies such as staking, arbitrage or active portfolio management offer the opportunity for additional sources of income or the reduction of value fluctuations. A savings plan on crypto ETPs is particularly suitable for private investors to build up initial positions in digital assets and to diversify the savings plan portfolio consisting of classic ETFs and funds," said Rene Delrieux, Product Manager Investing at comdirect - a brand of Commerzbank.

Appendix: List of Savings Plan Eligible iMaps Crypto ETPs

WKN designation fees

• A3GQF1 iMaps Crypto Alpha Strategy ETI 0.25% p.a.
• A3GS2E iMaps sustainliquid ETI 0.40% p.a.
• A3GS2F iMaps cryptobest ETI 1.10% p.a.
• A3GTMK iMaps DeFi Income Strategy ETI 1.75% p.a.
• A3GV3E iMaps Jolly Ledger Digital Assets Arbitrage ETI 0.85% p.a.

Detailed information on the ETPs can be found at www.imaps-capital.com/etis