Anchorage Digital Launches Agentic Banking and Partners with Google Cloud to Power the Operating Layer for AI and Capital

TL;DR: Anchorage Digital, home to America's first federally chartered crypto banking infrastructure, is launching Agentic Banking, a new institutional platform for AI-driven finance, while deepening its partnership with Google Cloud to deliver a full-stack, cloud-native infrastructure for both agentic commerce and embedded digital asset services.

Anchorage Digital, home to America’s first federally regulated digital asset bank, today announced the launch of Agentic Banking, a new category of institutional infrastructure designed to enable AI agents to securely and compliantly interact with capital.

In tandem, Anchorage Digital is strategically partnering with Google Cloud, to pair Google’s AI and MPC Key Management infrastructure with Anchorage Digital's regulated financial rails to power both the emerging agentic economy and the next wave of institutional digital asset adoption.

From Intelligence to Execution: The Rise of Agentic Banking

As artificial intelligence shifts from generating text to taking autonomous action, enterprises are beginning to deploy AI systems that can negotiate contracts, manage treasury workflows, and execute payments.

But one critical piece has been missing: a secure, compliant way to connect AI to money.‍

Agentic Banking solves this. The platform provides a regulated trust, governance, and settlement layer that allows institutions to fund and control AI agents operating on their behalf, ensuring that every action is governed, auditable, and aligned with enterprise policies.

For enterprises building the next generation of autonomous workflows, Google's Gemini models provide the advanced reasoning required to navigate complex commerce decisions, while Anchorage’s  agentic banking platform serves as the regulated, financial settlement layer.

“We’re entering a world where agents don't just inform decisions, they make them, and act on them. But for that to work in the real economy, agents need more than intelligence, they need regulated access to capital. Agentic Banking is the bridge between those two worlds: a system that brings trust, governance, and real financial rails to autonomous systems.” — Nathan McCauley, Co-Founder and CEO, Anchorage Digital

When an AI agent reaches the moment of transaction, Anchorage Digital’s platform enforces corporate spending policies, Know Your Agent (KYA) identity standards, and real-time compliance controls, before executing settlement across stablecoins, fiat rails, or tokenized credentials.

Regulated custody meets cloud-native infrastructure

Today,  digital asset infrastructure requires stitching together multiple providers and with little modularity and flexibility for future changes. That model introduces complexity, operational risk, and slows time to market.

Anchorage and Google Cloud are collaborating on next-generation crypto key management, and transaction infrastructure delivered through the cloud to power traditional and agentic experiences.

Institutions expect their digital asset custody infrastructure to have the same reliability and security as the core infrastructure powering their payments, trading, treasury, and client platforms today. By leveraging Google Cloud’s MPC key management for digital asset custody, through a best-in-class services offered by Anchorage’s regulated platform, institutions can build a secure foundation for their digital asset products and services.  

The core focus is on a unified, B2B2C stack that brings together secure wallets, balance and transaction governance, trading and staking, and operational workflows in a way that can plug directly into financial products to make crypto available to end users. Supporting both stablecoins and digital assets like BTC, ETH or SOL alike, the platform allows financial institutions to distribute the service to their end customers in a fast go-to-market, secure and compliant way.

This collaboration is focused on deploying real infrastructure that institutions can rely on that is flexible enough to support multiple blockchain networks, plug into existing financial systems, and accommodate future workflows powered by agents..

Unlocking the next wave of institutional adoption

The past years' explosive growth of embedded finance is just a taste of what we'll see, now that we are providing accessible and secure infrastructure to embed stablecoin orchestration and digital asset operations directly at the base layer of the internet, in partnership with Google Cloud.

The institutions entering this market don't just need access to crypto. They need to embed it into their products, and do so in a way that meets the same standards for security, compliance, and scalability as the rest of their stack.

“As global financial institutions increasingly adopt digital assets, they require secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure to build on. By pairing Anchorage Digital’s regulated digital asset capabilities with our scalable infrastructure, we’re helping to unlock the next wave of institutional adoption.” — Rich Widmann, Head of Strategy, Web3, Google Cloud

Cloud is where that convergence is happening, and where a broader ecosystem of partners can build on top of what Anchorage Digital and Google Cloud are developing.

This is an early step toward a larger goal: making institutional digital asset infrastructure easier to deploy, easier to scale, and more aligned with how modern financial systems are built.

To learn more about Anchorage Digital and Google Cloud’s partnership, get in touch.