{"id":34849,"date":"2021-01-17T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:29:32","slug":"goldman-sachs-weighs-entry-into-the-crypto-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/goldman-sachs-weighs-entry-into-the-crypto-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs weighs entry into the crypto market."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest investment banks, Goldman Sachs, is studying the possibility of launching a custodial service for digital assets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/goldman-sachs-to-enter-crypto-market-soon-with-custody-play-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CoinDesk<\/a> reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, the financial conglomerate issued a request for information (RFI), which, in late 2020, was sent to at least one prominent player in crypto custody space.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLike JPMorgan, we issued an RFI concerning digital custody. We are studying the matter broadly and deciding what to do next,\u201d the insider said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the initiative is part of \u201ca broad digital strategy\u201d, and cited <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-regulator-authorises-banks-to-issue-stablecoins\">a recent decision<\/a> by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regarding stablecoins.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In terms of timing for launching crypto-related services, the publication&#8217;s source said that the bank&#8217;s plans will become apparent in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Goldman Sachs permitted the issuance of its own stablecoin.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest investment banks, Goldman Sachs, is studying the possibility of launching a custodial service for digital assets. CoinDesk reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1229,728,1156],"class_list":["post-34849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-banks-and-fintech","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34851,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions\/34851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}