Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Assets: Wall Street's Cryptocurrency Strategy Is Based on Years of Infrastructure Development, Not Trend Following

CycleProphet · 2026-03-25T02:14:16+00:00

Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Assets Strategy Amy Oldenburg stated at the New York Summit that Wall Street's entry into the cryptocurrency sector is a result of modernizing financial infrastructure. The firm plans to support tokenized equity trading by 2026 and is retrofitting core systems to enable faster settlement. She emphasized the systemic complexity of financial institutions, requiring collaboration with the global financial network to complete the transformation.

CycleProphet

2026-03-25 02:14:16

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, March 25 — According to CoinDesk, Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Morgan Stanley, stated at the New York Digital Asset Summit that Wall Street’s major banks entering the cryptocurrency space is not due to fears of missing out, but the result of years of advancing financial infrastructure modernization.

Oldenburg pointed out that Morgan Stanley’s digital asset strategy covers multiple levels including trading, asset management, and infrastructure. The bank plans to launch tokenized stock trading support on its alternative trading system in the second half of 2026. This platform currently handles stocks, ETFs, and American Depositary Receipts.

On the internal development front, the bank is renovating its core systems with decades of history to support faster settlement and continuous trading. Oldenburg emphasized that the complexity of financial institutions’ systems far exceeds that of startups, and that no single institution can complete modernization alone; it requires collaboration across the entire global financial network.

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