America’s Second Oldest Bank To Start Providing Crypto Services

America’s second oldest bank State Street to start providing crypto services to private-fund clients, as it joined forces with Lukka Inc. which we read more about in today’s cryptocurrency news.

The financial institution, America’s second oldest bank State Street Corporation, will start offering cryptocurrency services for its private-fund clients and the bank’s partner in the new enterprise is the technology company Lukka Inc. According to the reports, the leading US bank is looking to offer crypto reconciliation, processing services, and reporting to its private fund users. To achieve that, the financial institution teamed up with the digital assets tech company Lukka Inc.

In addition, the latter will provide the bank’s top clients with data to support valuation services. Nadine Chakar who is a top executive at the US Bank noted that the demand in crypto hasn’t cooled off and the institution will keep satisfying its clients’ appetite for crypto:

“The growth in popularity of digital assets is showing no signs of a slowdown and State Street Digital is committed to continuing to build out the necessary infrastructure to further develop our digital assets servicing models to help meet our clients’ growing demands.”

It is worth noting that State Street which is the second oldest bank in America, enabled crypto trading through its infrastructure. The corporation with more than $3 trillion in assets under management announced it will allow the exchange Pure Digital Markets to use its Currenex platform for trading and virtual currencies. As per the reports, State Street Corporation decided to release the digital unit focused on crypto investments, and this move came after its customers surged their demand for the assets by 300% over the past few months. Nadine Chakar is the leader of the division and she said:

“We are at a tipping point now where this is moving fast. We are getting calls from endowments and foundations that are getting donations in crypto and saying, what do we do with this? We are seeing companies that are thinking of adding crypto to their balance sheets.”

Chakar added that the bank will support everything in the crypto services that we are allowed to support from the regulatory perspective and this level of communications with the regulators is getting intense. She also revealed that the new initiative will result from a collaboration between the bank and other academic organizations and local regulators as well.