Standard Chartered is preparing to offer a crypto prime brokerage aimed at institutional clients, leveraging its roughly $850 billion in assets. The move underscores growing bank-led infrastructure for institutional crypto access.
Standard Chartered and Coinbase announced a collaboration to build institutional-grade trading, prime brokerage, custody, staking, and lending solutions. The partnership blends Standard Chartered’s global client reach with Coinbase’s crypto infrastructure to target banks, asset managers, and hedge funds.