Major banks are investing in the crypto market: here’s why
J.P Morgan?is the?latest?major Wall Street Bank?to?jump on the?cryptocurrency bandwagon?through investments, but why has?crypto recently?garnered such interest??
It is quickly becoming common place for key Wall Street banks to invest large sums into cryptocurrency, according to The Bitcoin News.?J.P Morgan is the latest?major?financial institution?to jump on the?crypto band wagon after investing $100m in blockchain project Figure.?While?this kind of enthusiasm hasn’t always been the case,?recent attraction comes from?a need to meet growing demand?for crypto?and?the economic?benefit?this could bring.?
Crypto hasn’t always been on the radar for Wall Street.?In fact,?back when?Bitcoin?first?launched in 2009,?every major investment bank?condemned?it,?and advised not to invest in it.?Now, top banks?are getting more euphuistic about the crypto market, especially after?the value of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin skyrocketed.?
Latest?contender,?U.S Investment Bank?J.P Morgan,?is reported to have?invested?$100m in?Figure?Technologies,?a shared blockchain?mortgage?platform?that covers both jumbo mortgages and conforming?that was launched in 2018 by founder Mike Cagney. The platform aims to?provide these?services?at a reduced cost and greater speed by automating certain areas of the process.??
Figure Technologies’ CEO said that J.P Morgan will be the?fifth?major investment?for its online lending business,?where the total volume of transactions has almost reached $1.5billion.??
Mike Cagney, CEO of Figure, stated in a press release:
This facility with JPMorgan will help us continue to innovate in the lending space,
Major cryptocurrency and bitcoin investor Bank of America are investing mostly?in?blockchain?and?crypto, overtly?acknowledging?the technologies?potential?and meeting the growing demand for the platform.?Internationally,?crypto?has been?embraced?by key banks such as the Bank of England, HSBC, Deutsche bank and UBS as they look for more secure transactions.?Other banks have created their own crypto?currency?in bid to make?returns from?blockchain, such as J.P Morgan,?who?revealed?their in-house digital?currency?JPM Coin.?
These verticals all demonstrate that banks are taking baby steps to commercialise?blockchain?and?cryptocurrency. Banks which have seen great success following a user-friendly?approach include?Barclays,?Revolt?and Goldman Sachs.???
Undeniably,?Wall Street?got a taste?for?crypto’s potential?especially?given the?monumental events recently with Bitcoin,?and is gearing up for the future.?JP Morgan Managing Director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, for instance, had predicted a?Bitcoin rate?of an astonishing 146,000 US dollars.?
Source: The Bitcoin News??
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