20% of financial services (FS) industry insiders reported having cryptos as part of their organizations’ core operation in a sentiment poll* conducted globally across GlobalData’s FS news media sites during the first half (H1) of 2025. An additional 20% are expected to follow suit, either having implementation plans in place (6%), or looking into strategies for digital currency integration (14%), reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Notwithstanding the growing urgency and attention on digital assets regulation, risks associated with core crypto integration persist, but the risk of not getting involved with the emerging wave of encryption and tokenisation sweeping through the industry can be bigger.
H1 2025 was a transformative stage in FS organizations’ crypto, stablecoin, and tokenized asset adoption, that was to some extent driven by the fear of missing out for leading incumbents especially. But importantly we saw powerful and previously crypto-sceptic individuals recognize they cannot beat this ‘revolution’ and joined it instead, such as Jamie Dimon or Xi Jinping, shifting the trajectory of institutional crypto adoption globally.
Asia-Pacific leads on the planned corporate implementation sentiment, as over half of industry insiders reported some level of involvement in the poll. As for Europe, Ukraine and Moldova rank the top two globally for crypto value exchanged via institutional centralized services adjusted by population, with Slovenia, Estonia, Georgia, and Latvia in top 10 too, according to Chainalysis 2025 adoption index.
Some estimate that half of global FIs already use stablecoins for payment purposes. While the potential downside risks of institutions moving to blockchain-based stablecoin payment rails are limited given the benefits offered, adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet is towards the opposite end of the implementation spectrum. Until the “digital gold” keeps hitting new all-time highs, corporations and governments globally will continue buying in anticipated appreciation.
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*GlobalData’s poll was conducted on Verdict Media sites in H1 2025 and gathered 214 respondents from industry insiders.
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