{"id":49530,"date":"2021-09-15T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49530"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:06:01","slug":"morgan-stanley-to-establish-cryptocurrency-research-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/morgan-stanley-to-establish-cryptocurrency-research-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley to establish cryptocurrency research unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the leading US investment banks Morgan Stanley appointed Sheena Shah as head of cryptocurrency research. This move marks &#8216;a recognition of the growing importance of digital assets,&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-09-13\/morgan-stanley-taps-sheena-shah-to-lead-new-crypto-research-team\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Previously she spent eight years as the chief strategist for currency markets. In the new role she will lead the formation of a team that will focus on studying the impact of cryptocurrencies on equities and fixed-income instruments.<\/p>\n<p>In March, CNBC sources <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-first-among-major-u-s-banks-to-offer-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds\">reported plans<\/a> for Morgan Stanley to offer accredited investors with at least $2 million in capital access to bitcoin funds. The bank limited investments in these instruments to 2.5% of their own capital.<\/p>\n<p>A month later, in an SEC filing, the 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 Bitcoin to 12 of its own funds.<\/p>\n<p>In June, New York Digital Investment Group and FS Investments <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-clients-to-invest-in-nydig-bitcoin-fund\">filed<\/a> with the SEC an application to register a Bitcoin fund intended for Morgan Stanley&#8217;s clients.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the investment bank <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-reveals-stake-in-grayscale-bitcoin-trust\">disclosed<\/a> the position of Morgan Stanley Europe Opportunity Fund in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, amounting to $1.3 million. In July, it was disclosed <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-increases-stake-in-grayscale-bitcoin-trust\">that Morgan Stanley Insight Fund acquired<\/a> GBTC shares for $27.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Moody\u2019s Investors Service <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/moodys-opens-vacancy-for-crypto-and-defi-specialist\">opened<\/a> a vacancy for an analyst in digital assets and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-decentralised-finance-defi\">DeFi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the $1.4 trillion asset manager Franklin Templeton posted <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/investment-giant-franklin-templeton-opens-crypto-related-vacancies\">cryptocurrency-related vacancies<\/a> \u2014 for an analyst and a trader.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the leading US investment banks Morgan Stanley appointed Sheena Shah as head of cryptocurrency research. This appointment marks &#8216;a recognition of the growing importance of digital assets,&#8217; Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49531,"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":[1269,1145,873],"class_list":["post-49530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-market-analysis","tag-morgan-stanley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530","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=49530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49532,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530\/revisions\/49532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}