Standard Chartered's joint venture with Northern Trust, Zodia Custody, was launched in December.
The platform will launch later this year, offering bitcoin trading initially with ether to be added thereafter.
The world’s biggest custodian bank beats rivals JPMorgan and Citi to the punch.
Zodia Custody is currently pending approval by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority and is expected to launch in 2021.
Standard Chartered has gathered a group of crypto exchanges for a new digital asset trading platform tailored to the institutional market, according to sources.
The proof-of-concept issuance of tokenized bonds was carried out on a blockchain platform built by Standard Chartered's fintech investment unit.
The Travel Rule Protocol working group has published the first version of its TRP API.
The head of Standard Chartered's venture arm said the crypto custody solution could launch into test phase sometime later this year.
Standard Chartered said it invested in Metaco to improve the relatively undeveloped market infrastructure in digital assets.
ING Bank, Standard Chartered and others have developed a protocol to handle a new rule for crypto exchanges and firms dealing in digital assets.
The bank said the blockchain letter-of-credit transaction – between mining giant Rio Tinto and Chinese firm Baosteel – was the first to be denominated in yuan.
Standard Chartered has invested in Contour, the recently-rebranded Voltron blockchain trade finance platform digitizing letters of credit for financial institutions.
Standard Chartered Bank has completed its first international letter of credit transaction on the open-industry blockchain trade platform Voltron.
Facebook's hiring spree for its upcoming cryptocurrency continues with the addition of a senior bank lobbyist from Standard Chartered.
Financial messaging giant Swift has teamed up with Singapore Exchange and several major banks to trial a DLT platform for shareholder voting.