Stephen Alpher
Stephen Alpher is CoinDesk's co-regional news chief, Americas. He holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
The world's largest custodian bank and the oldest lender in the U.S., Bank of New York Mellon (BK), has added cryptocurrencies to its custody services, according to a press release on Tuesday.
To this point, traditional fund managers interested in holding digital assets – who otherwise rely on BNY Mellon (or other custodial lenders) to perform the necessary back-office tasks related to their usual securities holdings – typically would have had to find a firm specializing in cryptocurrency for custody services.
Wall Street Journal reported the news earlier.
BNY Mellon will now be able to provide those fund managers with storage of the keys necessary to access and move around their bitcoin () and ether (), as well as the other traditional bookkeeping functions.
UPDATE (Oct. 11, 13:10 UTC): Updates headline and lead with the confirmation.
