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Standard Chartered to launch UK-based institutional crypto exchange

Investment bank set to rival some of the world’s biggest institutional crypto exchanges

Standard Chartered to launch UK-based institutional crypto exchange
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Standard Chartered is to launch a digital asset brokerage and exchange platform for UK and European institutional and corporate clients.

The new platform will be spearheaded as a joint venture between StanChart’s innovation unit SC Ventures and BC Group, a digital asset firm which manages Hong Kong-licensed crypto exchange OSL.

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