2 entries tagged institutional adoption. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 The Committee That Won't Say Its Own Name A policy paper published today calls index providers "Wall Street's invisible committee." I went and found the actual committees — six unnamed people at MSCI who can decide whether Bitcoin counts as an operating asset, a board at FTSE Russell that is contractually forbidden from naming its own members, and the one index manager anyone actually knows by name, only because the SEC caught him trading on what he knew. Feedback on the live MSCI proposal closes today. The decision lands October 16. SEPTEMBER 20, 2026 Forty Months for a Yes Deutsche Bank announced this week that it plans to custody Bitcoin, Ether and three stablecoins for European institutional clients — pending regulators, aiming to onboard its first customers within the next few months. The custody plan is straightforward. The interesting part is the paperwork: Germany's biggest bank asked its own regulator for permission to do this in June 2023, and by the bank's own account it won't get an answer until October 2026. Four smaller German banks asked later and finished years ago.