Around 1 in 5 or 20% of financial services industry professionals have reported having crypto-assets as part of their firms’ main operation in a sentiment poll conducted across GlobalData’s FS media sites during the 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 data and analytics company.
Notwithstanding the 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, which was to “some extent driven by the fear of missing out for leading incumbents, especially.”
But the researchers said that they also 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 in planned corporate implementation sentiment, with over half of industry insiders reporting “some level of involvement in the poll.”
As for Europe, Ukraine and Moldova rank the top two globally for crypto value exchanged through institutional centralized services, adjusted by population, with Slovenia, Estonia, Georgia, and Latvia in the top 10 too, according to Chainalysis’ adoption index.”
Some estimate that half of global FIs already “use stablecoins for payment purposes.”
Although 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.”
GlobalData’s survey was conducted on Verdict Media sites “in H1 2025 and gathered 214 respondents from industry insiders.”
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