Standard Chartered sharply cut its price forecasts, warning bitcoin could slide toward $50,000 and ether to about $1,400 in the coming months before recovering. The bank said the revisions reflect mounting stress across digital assets even as it retains a constructive long-term view.
Standard Chartered has partnered with liquidity provider B2C2 to link its global banking infrastructure with deep digital-asset liquidity, expanding regulated institutional access to bitcoin and ethereum markets worldwide.
Standard Chartered has partnered with B2C2 to provide institutional bitcoin trading services, aiming to bridge traditional banking and crypto markets. The deal highlights growing demand from banks for regulated digital-asset capabilities.
Standard Chartered says stablecoin-driven digital asset adoption is creating a $500 billion headwind for U.S. banks and could trigger bank-run‑like deposit outflows if the trend continues. The analyst flagged faster liquidity migration off bank balance sheets as a key risk.
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.