APIS Finance advises high-net-worth individuals, institutions and governments on cross-border investment structures, fund architecture and market entry across onshore and offshore jurisdictions.
The APIS Group was founded in Brussels in 1991. APIS Finance GmbH, the group’s Vienna-based advisory entity, was established in 2002. The practice has no product bias and no in-house funds to sell — its work is structuring, advising and representing clients across jurisdictions that conventional banks are slow to enter.
Design, development and operation of debt management facilities and programmes for HNWI, private trusts, corporations, NGOs, financial institutions, municipalities and government agencies. International fund structuring across onshore and offshore jurisdictions, including Luxembourg (UCITS III, SIF) and Austria.
Investment advisory and operational leadership for ventures entering frontier markets — including private-sector energy infrastructure in Mongolia, creative-economy and resources funds in China, and governmental and diplomatic liaison across Central Asia.
Senior lecturer on economics master’s programmes at WU Vienna; contributing expert to Austria’s leading tax and financial publications; member of an Austrian parliamentary think tank on financial market reform following the global financial crisis.
Across three decades, the firm’s engineering work has repeatedly produced the first instrument of its kind in its market — not as a marketing claim, but as a record of where the structuring was actually novel.
Independent investment advisory for corporates, institutions, family offices and governments. Engagements span debt management programmes, international fund structuring, frontier-market entry and diplomatic liaison — built on three decades of jurisdictional reach across Europe, the Americas, and Central & East Asia.
A research and development initiative within the APIS group, applying the firm’s structuring discipline to non-custodial portfolio management architecture for digital assets — the practice’s most recent entry in its record of sector-first structures.
Founder & Managing Director, APIS Finance GmbH. President, Austro-Mongolian Society “Otschir”.
Peter Franz Stummer founded the APIS Group in Brussels in 1991 and established APIS Finance GmbH, the group’s Vienna-based advisory entity, in 2002. Across more than three decades he has structured investment vehicles in onshore and offshore jurisdictions, led market-entry and energy-infrastructure mandates in Mongolia and China, and lectured on economics master’s programmes at WU Vienna. He was educated to MBA level in Corporate Financial Strategy at an institution funded by the Rothschild Trust, and serves as President of the Austro-Mongolian Society “Otschir,” the principal Vienna-based institution for Austrian–Mongolian economic and diplomatic relations.
For institutions, family offices and governmental counterparties engaging with APIS Finance on cross-border investment structuring or advisory matters.