Standard Chartered and Coinbase have expanded their strategic partnership to build trading, custody and financing infrastructure for institutional cryptocurrency clients.
The British multinational bank said the collaboration will focus on developing secure and compliant digital asset services tailored to large financial institutions.
Under the expanded alliance, the two firms will explore offerings across trading, prime brokerage, custody, staking and lending services.
Standard Chartered said the partnership is designed to meet growing institutional demand for regulated access to digital asset markets.
“We aim to explore how the two organisations can support secure, transparent and interoperable solutions that meet the highest standards of security and compliance,” Margaret Harwood-Jones said.
Harwood-Jones is the global head of financing and securities services at Standard Chartered and oversees the bank’s institutional market infrastructure strategy.
The firms said the collaboration combines Standard Chartered’s global banking, cross-border payments and custody expertise with Coinbase’s institutional crypto platform.