The bank hopes to offer institutional investors and private customers to buy cryptocurrencies, “such as Bitcoin,” in the future.
DZ Bank, the third largest bank in Germany by asset size, has launched its own digital assets custody platform built on the blockchain.to an announcement published on Nov. 2, the platform will work with institutional clients, offering them crypto securities, such as the crypto bond from Siemens, which DZ Bank subscribed to six months ago.
Holger Meffert, head of securities services and digital custody at DZ, expressed the bank’s interest in distributed ledger technology : “We assume that within the next ten years, a significant proportion of capital market business will be processed via distributed ledger technology -based infrastructures. In the medium term, we see DLT as a complementary technology to the established infrastructures in the existing capital market processes.”
The bank also hopes to offer institutional investors and private customers the facility to buy cryptocurrencies, “such as Bitcoin,” in the future. To achieve that, DZ applied for a crypto custody license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in June 2023.despite the country’s strict industry regulatory regime. More and more institutions are finding ways to allow customers access to cryptocurrencies.
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