Digital Asset Custody

As on-chain yield demand accelerates, Summer.fi Institutional is equipping custodians and asset managers with compliant vault infrastructure, unlocking crypto-native yield through automation, transparency, and policy control.

As the digital asset ecosystem matures, institutions face rising threats from cyberattacks, insider risks, and governance gaps. Ledger Enterprise outlines how modern custody solutions — built on hardware-backed protection and embedded governance — can deliver the resilience and transparency institutional investors demand.

Explore the rise of Digital Assets in asset management. Learn how Digital Assets can revolutionize costs and trust in the industry today.

Are specialist intermediaries such as market-makers necessary to generate liquidity in tokenised asset markets? Traditional markets prove that liquidity does not arise naturally from the interaction of issuers and investors, and cannot be sustained by their activities either, but must instead be created by market-makers and sell- and buy-side firms using collateralised credit and asset borrowings to take positions and increase the value of their trades (see Chart 1). So liqui

Digital asset custody: What can possibly go wrong?

How do the risks of digital asset custody differ from the risks of traditional custody? Digital assets are not the same as conventional financial assets, so custodians must master familiar risks in unfamiliar guises, and entirely new risks. The fact that ownership of a digital asset depends on possession of private keys is an obvious difference from registered securities or funds. The keys are routinely sharded into multiple parts which must not only be reassembled as needed

How is the digital asset custody industry evolving? The origins of digital asset custody lie in the initial cryptocurrency boom of 2015-2017. Retail investors needed digital wallets to hold the private keys to their coins, and the cryptocurrency exchanges provided them. Independent digital asset custodians, and vendors of independent digital asset custody technologies, proliferated in 2017 and especially 2018, as the first cryptocurrency bubble inflated and then deflated.  At

Custodians have been obliged since 2019 to check that holders of cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins are not money launderers, terrorists or sanctions evaders. (1)  What impact have those obligations had on the day-to-day practice of digital asset custodians?  Both traditional custodian banks and specialist digital asset custodians have recognised the need to comply with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) obligations to run Anti Money Laundering (AML), Countering the Financi

Why do digital asset custodians exist at all when blockchain was invented to eliminate the need for trusted intermediaries? Issuers and investors, and intermediaries such as asset managers and brokers, are agreed that custodians are essential to secure mainstream adoption of digital assets. Such universal agreement reflects the fact that custodians reassure investors, asset managers and brokers that their assets are safe, and their privacy and confidentiality will be respecte

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Explore the impact of the "safeguarding" rule on digital asset custody. Learn how digital asset custody is evolving under new regulations.

Explore the uncertain future of SAB 121 and its impact on digital asset custody. Is SAB 121 dead or alive? Discover the latest insights now.

Discover insights on the Custody Market and its growth in digital asset custody services. Explore the Custody Market trends and challenges today!

Explore why the United States lags in digital assets regulation and how this impacts digital asset custodians. Discover the global regulatory landscape.

Discover why bank regulators are crucial in the U.S. banking landscape. Learn how bank regulators influence digital asset custody today.

Explore the evolution of the German Token Market, from regulatory reforms to the rise of tokenised securities. Dive into the German Token Market now!

Explore the evolving Custody Market as banks cautiously enter digital asset custody. Discover if the Custody Market role is truly expanding.

Explore the transformative role of Digital Custody in today's market. Discover how Digital Custody bridges traditional and digital asset worlds.

Explore how Germany became the unexpected leader of the digital asset revolution. Discover why Germany is the leader of the digital asset sector.

Discover how non-bank digital asset custodians are adapting to the cryptocurrency bear market. Learn how custodians boost market activity.

Explore the evolving Market since EQPG's 2021 inception. Discover how the Market is adapting with digital assets and crypto securities in Germany.

Discover how intermediaries play a crucial role in safeguarding digital assets. Learn about the legal nuances and benefits of safeguarding digital assets today.

Explore the implications of changes to the Investment Advisors Act 1940 custody rule. Understand the potential impacts on the Investment Advisors Act 1940.

Future of Finance: There is no shortage of individual blockchain and tokenisation projects in repo, swaps, payments and securities. Why have they yet to achieve scale? Lima: The reason experiments are failing to scale is because we are pursuing siloed initiatives that work in isolation but are not integrated with each other. Within the R3 eco-system alone we have for example HQLAx digitising collateral, Finteum doing intraday FX swaps and SSImple digitising Standing Settlemen

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Explore how banks are revolutionising digital asset custody services. Discover why digital asset custody is the future of finance.

Explore how regulation shapes digital asset custody. Understand the global regulatory landscape and why regulation is crucial for digital asset custody.

Explore the evolving Custody industry as digital asset custodians adapt to market demands. Discover how consolidation is reshaping the Custody industry.

Discover how new custody rules will reshape the digital asset market. Learn about the changes and how they will reshape the digital asset market.

Explore how digital asset custody services differ from traditional custody services. Learn why traditional custody services aren't enough today.

Discover why institutions must control their own digital asset destinies. Learn how self-custody solutions can safeguard digital assets effectively.

Explore the evolution of digital asset custody and its recent challenges. Discover how digital asset custody is adapting to market changes.

Explore how Digital asset security ensures protection for your cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Learn how Digital asset security safeguards your investments.

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Explore the future with "Tokenisation is coming." Discover how Tokenisation is transforming assets and revolutionising global finance today.

A Future of Finance interview with Martin Watkins, CEO at Montis Group. The existence of Montis, which is building an infrastructure to...

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A Future of Finance interview with Rosario Ingargiola, Founder and CEO of Bosonic. The summer of 2022 marked the end of the age of...

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A summary of the webinar of June 9 2022 entitled Is the digital asset custody industry ready to grow up? Summary What can be done about...

A Future of Finance interview with Sebastian Widmann, Head of Strategy at Komainu Growing institutional interest in the largest and most...

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