Charles Schwab Announces Crypto Accounts Are 'Coming Soon'

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Charles Schwab To Allow Direct Cryptocurrency Trading With Crypto Accounts

While the cryptocurrency markets are not enjoying their most booming phase, institutions are still interested in adding crypto to their investment offerings.

Charles Schwab, a brokerage institution managing over $12 trillion for more than 46 million customers, has announced that it will include cryptocurrency trading services directly from its platform. On its webpage, it disclosed that “Schwab Crypto,” in the form of cryptocurrency trading accounts offered by Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB, would be “coming soon.”

While details are scant at the moment, the page did specify that Bitcoin and Ether would be the specific crypto assets offered at launch, and that the service will be available in neither New York nor in Louisiana.

The move was anticipated by the institution’s CEO, Rick Wurster, last month, when he highlighted that while the cryptocurrency fever had subsided, a significant number of its customers were still seeking to directly hold cryptocurrencies, even when having other proxy investment options like exchange-traded funds (ETFs) at their disposal.

He declared:

“Clients are still interested in it. We think it’ll round out our offering. And I think how blockchain and tokenization play out is still to be determined.”

Charles Swab has proven to be a pro- crypto company, being involved in plans to launch a Trump Media ETF offering in partnership with Crypto.com, offering custody to up to $250 million.

The institution recently acquired Forge, a private markets exchange, with the intention of broadening access to pre-IPO company shares.

In the same way, the institution has not ruled out executing crypto-related acquisitions to expand its digital asset footprint, with Wurster stressing that it would consider it “if the right opportunity presented itself at the right price” in December.