Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered projects Ethereum may climb to $40,000 by 2030, citing macroeconomic relief and an improving market structure; the call contrasts with ETH’s current recovery-phase price action.

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.

Swift and Standard Chartered have unveiled a shared blockchain ledger to support global tokenized finance, building on Swift’s network that connects 11,500 institutions. The initiative aims to improve interoperability and accelerate settlement for institutional tokenized assets.

Standard Chartered and Coinbase are broadening their partnership to build institutional trading, custody, and financing solutions aimed at asset managers and corporate clients.

Standard Chartered Malaysia and Capital A, parent of AirAsia, will issue and pilot a ringgit-pegged stablecoin focused on wholesale use cases, aiming to test tokenised fiat for institutional settlement and liquidity management.

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.

Standard Chartered strategist Geoff Kendrick trimmed his year-end Bitcoin target to $100,000 and pushed his $500,000 projection back to 2030, calling current conditions a "cold breeze" rather than a full "crypto winter."

Coinbase is rolling out Coinbase Business in Singapore through a partnership with Standard Chartered, enabling startups and SMBs to make fast USDC payments, settle internationally, and access crypto finance tools. The tie-up aims to link bank rails with on-chain flows to lower friction for cross-border commerce.