Anchorage Digital Expands Global Services with Standard Chartered

TL;DR:

• Anchorage Digital now offers USD accounts and access to SWIFT wires, including transfers to and from third parties, to eligible international institutional clients through a partnership with Standard Chartered
• Institutional clients of Anchorage Digital outside the United States can hold USD, move money across borders, and settle 24/7 with in-network counterparties, all on the same platform they currently use for digital asset custody and trading

Financial infrastructure that keeps pace with innovation

Anchorage Digital is building toward a financial system where traditional rails and blockchain networks converge, where fiat and digital assets sit side by side in the same account, and where value moves anywhere in the world at any hour of any day.

Today, many institutions still operate across a divide. Global businesses need to move money around the clock while the banking system beneath them runs on cutoff times and multi-day settlement windows, and companies in the digital asset economy carry the added cost of limited access to institutional USD accounts and separate providers for payments, custody, and settlement.

We are closing that gap, so institutions can move fiat and digital assets 24/7 on one regulated platform, at global scale.

“As client needs evolve, financial infrastructure has to advance to facilitate greater speed, access and reliability. At Standard Chartered, we believe in banking the digital ecosystem by providing the regulated banking, payments, liquidity and risk infrastructure that digital asset firms need to operate at institutional scale. By bringing Standard Chartered’s trusted banking systems and global network together with Anchorage Digital’s regulated platform, we are enabling institutional firms the ability to move and manage fiat and digital assets more seamlessly, securely and efficiently across borders.”— Luke Boland, Global Head of Fintech, Standard Chartered.

Expanding B2B payments to global businesses

Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte. Ltd. now offers clients access to USD accounts and SWIFT transfers, extending a capability already available through Anchorage Digital Bank to institutions worldwide. 

Enabled by a partnership with Standard Chartered, the offering complements the digital asset custody, trading, and settlement infrastructure Anchorage Digital is known for. Clients onboarded through Anchorage Digital Singapore can also move USD around the clock, including weekends and holidays, with counterparties that bank with Standard Chartered Singapore. 

Whether an institutional client onboards through Anchorage Digital Bank in the United States or Anchorage Digital Singapore internationally, they gain access to one place to manage both fiat and digital assets – a single platform that powers modern, global businesses.

"Global businesses should not have to choose between the speed of digital assets and the reliability of traditional banking rails. With this expansion, clients around the world can hold USD alongside digital assets, send and receive fiat wires, and settle around the clock, all on one platform." — Nathan McCauley, CEO and Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital

The expansion deepens Anchorage Digital's presence in Asia Pacific, a region where banks, asset managers, family offices, and corporates are building digital asset strategies at scale. These institutions will have access to the same secure, compliant infrastructure Anchorage Digital delivers to clients globally.

Core capabilities

Within a single integrated account structure, eligible institutional clients can access:

• USD accounts: institutional accounts for operating funds and global payments
• Named virtual accounts: spin up accounts in your name with unique routing details to segregate funds, attribute flows, and streamline reconciliation
• SWIFT payments: send and receive international USD wires, including transfers to and from third parties
• 24/7 settlement: move funds at any hour through Anchorage Digital’s Atlas settlement network
• Integrated digital asset services: secure digital asset custody and trading on the same platform 

Built for institutions operating across borders

The expansion is designed for companies whose operations do not stop at borders: 

• Global businesses moving money across markets, including digital asset exchanges and global trading businesses managing high-volume USD flows.
• Digital asset companies that need fiat rails to match their onchain operations, including protocols and neobanks.
• Financial institutions building digital asset strategies, including banks, asset managers, family offices, and corporates.

One partner for cash and digital assets

The expansion continues Anchorage Digital's work of consolidating institutional finance onto a single regulated platform. Rather than holding USD with one provider, digital assets with another, and settling across a third, clients can bring those workflows together, reducing fragmentation, counterparty exposure, and operational overhead.

That is the standard Anchorage Digital is building toward globally: fully integrated payments, custody, trading, and settlement. 

To learn more about our services or begin onboarding, visit anchorage.com/platform/banking or get in touch.