{"id":128117,"date":"2026-03-19T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/900462087"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:26:50","slug":"inside-coinbase-institutionals-ambition-to-bring-its-tech-stack-to-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/inside-coinbase-institutionals-ambition-to-bring-its-tech-stack-to-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Coinbase Institutional&#8217;s ambition to bring its tech stack to banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center>\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"RawHtml\" data-module-mame=\"editors-pick\">\n<div class=\"ep_main\">\n<div class=\"ep_pill\"><img data-opt-id=1819083901  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arizent.brightspotcdn.com\/f6\/04\/5082fa344b4ca9e82d1e28b83baa\/complimentary-access-pill-green.svg\" alt=\"Complimentary Access Pill\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ep_description\">Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights \u2014 selected by our editors.<br \/>Want unlimited access to top ideas and insights? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/subscribe\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Key insights<\/b>: Coinbase&#8217;s institutional business is looking to bring its trading infrastructure to more banks and financial institutions.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>What&#8217;s at stake<\/b>: As demand for 24\/7 liquidity continues to grow among institutional investors, banks need to upgrade their tech stacks, or risk their clients leaving.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Forward look<\/b>: Coinbase Institutional co-CEO Brett Tejpaul said he is preparing for a &#8220;massive activation&#8221; in digital assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014&nbsp; Coinbase has long been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/payments\/news\/coinbase-launches-new-crypto-technology-products \" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">best known for its retail trading platform<\/a>, but it&#8217;s been making big investments in its institutional business as well.<\/p>\n<p>Processing Content<\/p>\n<p>The thesis is relatively simple: More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/news\/nyse-dtcc-developing-blockchain-based-securities-trading\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">institutional investors want to be able to trade digital assets<\/a> all day, every day, and banks need to get on board or risk their clients leaving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You now have a client set that wants to trade 24\/7, and they want to trade a bunch of things next to one another, and the [technology] stack that you have doesn&#8217;t work,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/on-chain.americanbanker.com\/profile\/Brett-Tejpaul\/?utm_campaign=ON_CHAIN&amp;utm_medium=onsite_coverage&amp;utm_source=article\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Brett Tejpaul<\/u><\/a>, co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional, said at American Banker&#8217;s On-Chain Executive Summit in New York on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can apply our infrastructure to help that problem,&#8221; Tejpaul said, who spent two decades on Wall Street in a variety of executive positions at JPMorganChase and Barclays. &#8220;This is like our pivot from Amazon to AWS, where everything I&#8217;ve built I&#8217;m now exposing to the likes of PayPal, JPMorganChase, PNC, the whole world that wants to use the stack to do better, faster, cheaper.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tejpaul wants to partner with banks and hedge funds for trading strategies, and anticipates increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/payments\/news\/jpmorganchase-expands-blockchain-payments-strategy\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">uptake as financial institutions recognize the benefits of the technology<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have places like JPMorganChase and Standard Chartered that have actually made huge investments over the past many years to actually activate their own native capabilities,&#8221; Tejpaul said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sitting here as an ex-banker who left the system who thinks it&#8217;s entirely broken. That&#8217;s not my narrative. My narrative is, there&#8217;s a new, emerging financial system. It&#8217;s better, faster, cheaper, and it&#8217;s robust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>American Banker&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/on-chain.americanbanker.com\/executive-summit\/?utm_campaign=ON_CHAIN&amp;utm_medium=onsite_coverage&amp;utm_source=article\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\">On-Chain Finance Summit<\/a> is an invitation-only conference that explores how the digital asset economy is transforming traditional finance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; , banks need to upgrade their <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> stacks, or risk their clients &#8230; next to one another, and the [<span class=\"match\">technology<\/span>] stack that you have doesn &#8230; financial institutions recognize the benefits of the <span class=\"match\">technology<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 &quot;We have places like &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}