Quick take:
- JPMorgan plans to make the token accessible to customers of its clients at a later stage of the rollout.
- It also plans to expand to other currency denominations, pending approval from regulators, and has already filed a trademark for JPME, a euro version of the token.
- Unlike the widely used stablecoins, which are paired to assets like treasury bills, the JPMD is a tokenised representation of dollar deposits at the bank.
JPMorgan has started rolling out the JPM Coin (JPMD) to institutional clients. The token allows users to send and receive money via a blockchain, enabling 24/7 payments, with transactions processed in seconds, the bank said.
JPMorgan plans to make the token accessible to customers of its clients at a later stage of the rollout. There are also plans to expand to other currency denominations, pending approval from regulators, and has already filed a trademark for JPME, a euro version of the token.
Unlike the widely used stablecoins, which are paired to assets like treasury bills, the JPMD is a tokenised representation of dollar deposits at the bank. “We think that stablecoins get a lot of buzz, but for institutional clients, deposit-based products offer a compelling alternative,” Naveen Mallela, global co-head of the bank’s blockchain division Kinexys, told Bloomberg. “These can be yield-bearing.”
The rollout comes after JPMorgan completed a trial period of the JPM Coin with some of the leading payment service providers in both fiat and crypto, including Mastercard and Coinbase.
JPMD is currently supported by Coinbase’s Base blockchain, but there are plans to roll out to more blockchains in the future.
The announcement comes as demand for digital assets pegged to real-world assets continues to rise following the passage of the GENIUS Act in July.
The GENIUS Act provides clarity for regulating cryptocurrencies linked to fiat currencies, whilst also offering guidelines to traditional financial institutions looking to integrate digital assets with their systems.
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