The total cryptocurrency exposures reported by 19 predominantly U.S. banks represented 9.4B euros ($9B), or a just 0.14% of total exposures, according to a recent study by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the primary global standard setter for banking regulations.
That figure shrank to 0.01% across all 182 banks considered for the exercise, including those that did not report crypto exposure.
The study was based on a new crypto data collection template sent to a number of banks and designed to support the committee’s two documents on the prudential treatment of banks’ cryptoasset exposures it published in June 2021 and June 2022. Those two documents refer to the Basel Committee's efforts to toughen rules that would determine how depository institutions could enter crypto.
The primary crypto exposures featured bitcoin (BTC-USD) (31%) and ethereum (ETH-USD) (22%) as well as other instruments based on those tokens (35%), the study found. The reported exposures spanned an...
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