DBS Plans to Launch Retail Crypto Trading Services in 2022 End

Singapore-based lender DBS (SGX: D05) is considering to expand its digital asset trading facility to retail customers by the end of this year, the CEO revealed on Monday in an earnings call. Currently, the crypto services of the bank are only limited to institutional clients.

“We are starting the initial work to expand it beyond the current investor base,” DBS CEO Piyush Gupta said. “Lots of work to do with suitability and anti-fraud… we should have something by the end of the year.”

However, details of the retail crypto trading services to be offered by the bank are not known yet.

DBS became one of the first mainstream lenders to adopt digital assets by offering trading services to institutional clients from early 2021. However, it is still a legacy approach as clients need to call the bank to place a crypto trading order.

The bank is initially focused to digitize its crypto services to make them more accessible in the first half of the ongoing year. Its focus on crypto can also be seen as it made its crypto trading desk available around the clock 24/7. Initially, the services were only available during Singapore banking hours.

Exploding Demand

Meanwhile, demand for DBS’s crypto services also exploded since the launch of its services. In an interview with Coindesk, DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx) CEO, Lionel Lim revealed that the platform handled $819 million as the yearly trading volume in 2021, out of which $595.5 million worth of cryptos were traded in the final quarter of the year.

Overall, the bank also posted an overall profit of $1.03 billion for the fourth quarter of the year, a jump of 37 percent.

Meanwhile, DBS made further bets in the decentralization ecosystem and launched blockchian bonds last year. It also partnered with JPMorgan for the development of a
 
 blockchain 
-based
 
 cross-border payments 
platform.

Singapore-based lender DBS (SGX: D05) is considering to expand its digital asset trading facility to retail customers by the end of this year, the CEO revealed on Monday in an earnings call. Currently, the crypto services of the bank are only limited to institutional clients.

“We are starting the initial work to expand it beyond the current investor base,” DBS CEO Piyush Gupta said. “Lots of work to do with suitability and anti-fraud… we should have something by the end of the year.”

However, details of the retail crypto trading services to be offered by the bank are not known yet.

DBS became one of the first mainstream lenders to adopt digital assets by offering trading services to institutional clients from early 2021. However, it is still a legacy approach as clients need to call the bank to place a crypto trading order.

The bank is initially focused to digitize its crypto services to make them more accessible in the first half of the ongoing year. Its focus on crypto can also be seen as it made its crypto trading desk available around the clock 24/7. Initially, the services were only available during Singapore banking hours.

Exploding Demand

Meanwhile, demand for DBS’s crypto services also exploded since the launch of its services. In an interview with Coindesk, DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx) CEO, Lionel Lim revealed that the platform handled $819 million as the yearly trading volume in 2021, out of which $595.5 million worth of cryptos were traded in the final quarter of the year.

Overall, the bank also posted an overall profit of $1.03 billion for the fourth quarter of the year, a jump of 37 percent.

Meanwhile, DBS made further bets in the decentralization ecosystem and launched blockchian bonds last year. It also partnered with JPMorgan for the development of a
 
 blockchain 
-based
 
 cross-border payments 
platform.

Source: https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/dbs-plans-to-launch-retail-crypto-trading-services-in-2022-end/