DZ Bank AG, the third largest bank in Germany by asset size, has launched its own digital assets custody platform built on blockchain. According to an announcement published on Nov. 2, the platform will work with institutional clients, offering them crypto securities, such as the crypto bond from Siemens, which DZ Bank had subscribed to six months ago. 

Holger Meffert, Head of Securities Services & Digital Custody at DZ, expressed the bank’s interest in the distributed ledger technology (DLT):

“We assume that within the next ten years, a significant proportion of capital market business will be processed via distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based infrastructures. In the medium… Read more on Cointelegraph