BNY Mellon — $2 Trillion Banking Giant — Put Forth Digital Assets Are the Future
New York-based banking giant BNY Mellon is jumping into the bitcoin and cryptocurrency game.
The bank, which boasts around $2 trillion in assets under management, has announced plans to hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on behalf of its clients.
The move comes amid the BNY chief heading up its digital assets unit, Mike Demissie, called an "uptick in institutional interest" in the emerging bitcoin and crypto asset class.
"There's an overall sentiment shift concerning digital assets," says Demissie, speaking over email ahead of the announcement, adding: "Digital assets are the future."
Over ongoing months, the financial services industry has warmed to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, with interest from any semblance of Wall Street giants JP Morgan and Citibank bolstering support from PayPal PYPL +4.7% and Visa V - 0.3%.
Wall Street's interest in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies comes as the bitcoin cost has flooded to all-time highs this year, helped on by any semblance of electric car-maker Tesla, payments supplier Square SQ +2.6% and business intelligence company MicroStrategy MSTR +2.4% adding bitcoin to their balance sheets.
BNY Mellon is currently developing a prototype that it claims will be the financial industry's "first multi-asset digital custody and administration platform" for both traditional and digital assets—bringing bitcoin and cryptocurrencies under the same roof as traditional holdings.
"We're experiencing heightened interest from current clients who are seeking exposure to digital assets," says Demissie. "We are also seeing new demand from prospective clients, particularly digital-native companies in the digital asset space, who are looking for BNY Mellon's core investment services."
BNY Mellon's digital asset unit will cover cryptocurrencies like bitcoin yet, besides, extend to stablecoins, for example, USDC, as well as tokenized protections and real assets, according to Demissie. Eventually, it's also expected to include the central bank gave digital monetary forms (CBDCs).
"Over the last year, we have seen increasing regulatory clarity and guidelines to safely operate in the digital asset space," says Demissie.
In January, the top U.S. banking regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said banks could use blockchain organizations and stablecoins to carry out payments and other activities.
"Growing client demand for digital assets, the maturity of advanced solutions, and improved regulatory clarity present a tremendous opportunity for us to extend our current service offerings to this emerging field," said Roman Regelman, head of the digital at BNY Mellon, in a statement alongside the announcement. "Pending further evaluations and approvals, we expect to begin offering these innovative and industry-shaping capabilities later this year."
In 2019, bitcoin futures exchange Bakkt revealed a partnership with BNY Mellon to custody bitcoin and cryptocurrencies on behalf of clients.
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