On August 4, the head of Coinbase Institutional, Brett Tejpaul, and the vice president of institutional product, Greg Tusar, announced that Coinbase has been selected by the financial giant Blackrock to provide the firm’s Aladdin platform access to cryptocurrencies.
Blackrock Chooses Coinbase to Connect Aladdin Clients to Crypto
Coinbase’s institutional arm will help the world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock (NYSE: BLK), provide Aladdin’s institutional clients with access to digital currencies. The company noted that Blackrock chose Coinbase due to the firm’s “scale, experience, and integrated product offering.” The publicly traded company Coinbase (Nasdaq: MONTA) has a long history in the crypto space since it was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam.
The New York-based multinational investment management corporation Blackrock yra vienas iš didžiausias financial institutions worldwide. Blackrock deals with roughly $ 10 trln in assets under management (AUM) recorded in 2021. Coinbase considers the partnership with Blackrock and Aladdin a “milestone” for the crypto asset company. The Aladdin platform stands for the Asset, Liability, Debt, and Derivative Investment Network and it’s an investment management and trading platform designed specifically for Blackrock’s institutional clients.
“Blackrock and Coinbase will continue to progress the platform integration and will roll out functionality in phases to interested clients,” Tejpaul and Tusar wrote on Thursday. In mid-June, Rick Rieder, chief investment officer (CIO) of global fixed income at Blackrock, paaiškino, that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (BTC) are durable assets. In April, Blackrock pradėjo a blockchain exchange-traded fund and Blackrock was pavadintas “a primary asset manager of USDC cash reserves” the same month.
Blackrock Exec: ‘Institutional Clients Are Increasingly Interested in Gaining Exposure to Digital Asset Markets’
Joseph Chalom, the global head of strategic ecosystem partnerships at Blackrock, remarked that Blackrock’s clientele has been gravitating toward digital currencies. “Our institutional clients are increasingly interested in gaining exposure to digital asset markets and are focused on how to efficiently manage the operational lifecycle of these assets,” Chalom said on Thursday. The Blackrock executive added:
This connectivity with Aladdin will allow clients to manage their bitcoin exposures directly in their existing portfolio management and trading workflows for a whole portfolio view of risk across asset classes.
Following the Coinbase and Blackrock partnership announcement, COIN shares increased more than 16% higher during the morning trading sessions on Thursday (EST). However, COIN is down 72.46% vertės from the stock’s all-time price high. Moreover, at the end of June, Goldman Sachs sumažintas COIN to a sell rating.
The news follows the alleged U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) probe pranešė on July 25, and the company’s recent Europos plėtra. In mid-June, Coinbase also atskleidė it had to cut back 18% of the firm’s workforce to “ensure [Coinbase stays] healthy during this economic downturn,” according to the company’s co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong.
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