JPMorgan Shakes Up Finance: Crypto-Backed Loans Go Live in 2025
Wall Street's sleeping giant just woke up—and it's bullish on blockchain. JPMorgan, the trillion-dollar trad-fi titan, is rolling out crypto-backed loans to institutional clients. Finally.
No more begging for fiat bridges
Need liquidity but don't want to dump your Bitcoin stack? The bank's new product lets whales collateralize digital assets without triggering taxable events. About damn time.
The fine print
Insiders whisper the LTV ratios are conservative (naturally), with BTC and ETH getting preferential treatment over "risky" altcoins. Because nothing says innovation like 20th-century risk models.
Why this matters
When Jamie Dimon's empire embraces crypto lending, the institutional floodgates creak open wider. Next stop: your pension fund manager explaining why they're "diversifying" into Dogecoin.