Spot ETH trading and custody for retail clients and other Swiss banks
Zürcher Kantonalbank has let its clients trade bitcoin and ETH at any hour in ZKB eBanking and Mobile Banking since 4 September 2024, with the holdings shown in their existing portfolio. The bank keeps the private keys itself, and Crypto Finance AG, part of Deutsche Börse Group, executes the trades. It offers the same trading and custody to other Swiss banks as a business-to-business service, and Thurgauer Kantonalbank was its first partner. This is custody of ETH itself, not tokenization.
In the record
25
Months since it was first seen
31
Institutions of its kind in the record
Other bank deployments
- BW-Bank (LBBW)Spot ETH trading for retail clientsSeptember 2026
- Standard CharteredDeliverable ETH spot trading for institutional clients in the UAE (Standard Chartered DIFC)September 2026
- Banque Delubac & CieETH staking for bank clientsJuly 2026
- Morgan StanleySpot ETH trading for retail clients on E*TRADEJuly 2026