{"id":42190,"date":"2021-05-10T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42190"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:07:14","slug":"ubs-to-offer-high-net-worth-clients-access-to-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ubs-to-offer-high-net-worth-clients-access-to-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS to offer high-net-worth clients access to cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss financial group UBS Group plans to offer high-net-worth clients access to cryptocurrencies. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/ubs-exploring-ways-to-offer-crypto-investments-to-rich-clients-1.1601595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BNN Bloomberg<\/a>, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, UBS is at an early stage of examining the issue. One possible option cited by sources was investments in digital assets via third-party instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say UBS will limit clients&#8217; investment options due to the volatility of cryptocurrencies. They declined to reveal further details.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports indicated <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-first-among-major-u-s-banks-to-offer-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds\">Morgan Stanley&#8217;s plans<\/a> to offer asset-managing clients access to Bitcoin-based investment funds. Later, the American bank <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-did-not-rule-out-adding-bitcoin-futures-to-its-own-funds\">did not rule out<\/a> adding derivatives on the first cryptocurrency to several of its own funds.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, The Bank of New York Mellon announced the addition <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/americas-oldest-bank-to-offer-bitcoin-custody-services\">a Bitcoin custody service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March it emerged that Goldman Sachs would offer <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/goldman-sachs-to-offer-bitcoin-based-products-in-the-second-quarter-of-2021\">digital-gold-based products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April, CoinDesk sources reported that JPMorgan Chase <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-jpmorgan-to-launch-bitcoin-fund\">planned to launch a Bitcoin fund<\/a> in the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss financial group UBS Group plans to offer high-net-worth clients access to cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42191,"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":[1269,1932],"class_list":["post-42190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-ubs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42192,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42190\/revisions\/42192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}