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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York
Standard Chartered Signs Deal to Absorb Zodia Custody as Kalshi and BitGo Open Bitcoin-Backed Margin Loans
The bank will fold Zodia's regulated custody business into its securities services unit and spin its infrastructure business out under SC Ventures. Grayscale, separately, is extending in-kind creations and redemptions to ten of its products.
Standard Chartered has signed an agreement to acquire Zodia Custody, the digital-asset custodian it incubated through its venture arm. The deal follows a non-binding proposal announced in May. According to SC Ventures, Zodia's regulated cus…
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Banks Pull Crypto Custody In-House
Large banks will keep acquiring or building regulated crypto custody inside their own balance sheets, pushing specialist custodians toward technology-supplier roles and making bank supervisors the main gatekeepers of institutional crypto holdings.
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