Key Takeaways:
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The time is now: The digital asset market has expanded dramatically in recent years, creating strong demand from clients for secure, reliable trading services.
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Launch fast, maintain control: Banks can leverage BitGo’s out-of-the-box trading APIs, regulated custody, and deep liquidity to offer trading to clients while controlling their experience.
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New revenue stream, minimal infrastructure burden: By offering trading to their clients, banks can generate new revenue streams, attract and retain clients, and position themselves as innovative leaders.
Demand for Digital Asset Trading Services is Here
Digital assets are mainstream. As trading volumes grow over 30% quarter-over-quarter(1) the strategic opportunity for traditional banks to capture client demand is clear, but building in-house infrastructure is slow, costly, and complex. Change that by partnering with a digital asset infrastructure provider, like BitGo. Skip building on your own product, minimize operational burden, and launch trading services quickly to capture client demand in a fraction of the time.
How You Can Offer Digital Asset Trading Services
By leveraging BitGo’s infrastructure, you can provide clients with a seamless trading experience while offloading operational complexity.
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Frictionless Onboarding: Utilize BitGo’s Crypto-as-a-Service solution that leverages BitGo’s licensing and KYC flow.
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API Integrations: Use BitGo’s APIs to build a branded trading platform or plug trading services into your existing bank interfaces. Maintain full control over the user experience while leveraging BitGo’s secure backend.
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Order Routing and Execution: Client trades are routed to BitGo, enabling you to tap into deep, aggregated liquidity across a network of the industry’s top liquidity providers, market makers and exchanges. Avoid capital intensive set up and management of dozens of individual liquidity relationships and access competitive pricing immediately.
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Qualified Custody and Security: BitGo safeguards your clients assets in regulated qualified custody, with institutional-grade security. Our offline, 100% cold storage and $250M in insurance against theft, loss or misuse of when BitGo holds all of the keys, ensures you never sacrifice safety for access.
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Reporting: BitGo provides banks automated reporting functionality to maintain compliance with minimal manual effort, ensuring transparency and reducing operational risk.
The Benefits
Offering digital asset trading services provides banks with immediate benefits. Be the institution that sets the pace, not the one forced to play catch up later.
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Generate New Revenue Streams: Monetize assets currently leaving your bank for an external platform. Charge additional trading fees, spreads and potentially fees for premium, value add services, increasing revenue.
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Lock in Loyal Clients: Appeal to clients who are interested in secure digital assets trading services while increasing stickiness and deepening relationships across high-net-worth and retail segments.
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Achieve Competitive Leadership: Position your bank as forward looking and innovative, Stand out from competitors who have yet to embrace digital assets. Capturing market share now lays the foundation for future digital asset innovation such as tokenized securities, stablecoin deposits and more.
Why You Should Build with BitGo
BitGo combines regulatory compliance, institutional-grade security, deep liquidity and over a decade of experience, making it the partner of choice for banks entering digital assets.
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Regulated and Trusted: BitGo operates multiple regulated entities across the globe, operating under the highest levels of oversight in the industry. We comply with some of the most rigorous compliance standards, giving you confidence that client assets and operations meet strict regulatory requirements.
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Industry Experience: With deep, proven expertise in securing, trading and managing digital assets for over 4,900 institutions across 100 countries, BitGo understands the challenges of integrating digital assets. We can offer dedicated, hands-on support to ensure a smooth integration process.
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End-to-End Infrastructure: Rely on BitGo for a fully integrated platform that combines custody, wallets, trading and settlement, giving you everything you need from a single provider. This all-in-one architecture reduces lower operational complexity, lowers cost and accelerates time to market.
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Scalable and Flexible: Don’t stop at trading services for clients. BitGo’s offering is designed to grow with you and support internal treasury operations, liquidity management, balance sheet diversification and other operational use cases. Whether starting small or expanding to a full suite of digital asset offerings, BitGo enables you to scale seamlessly as demand and growth increases.
Get Started with Digital Assets Today
The digital asset market is growing rapidly. Banks that move now can capture first-mover advantage, secure new revenue, deepen client relationships, and modernize their operations.
Partner with BitGo to unlock the full potential of digital assets for your and clients.
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BitGo is the digital asset infrastructure company, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have been focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. With a global presence and multiple regulated entities, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.
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