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Morgan Stanley is filing for its own Bitcoin ETF.
Not indirectly. Not through a client's fund. A direct Morgan Stanley product trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSBT.
BNY Mellon and Coinbase as custodians. Tokenized equities on their ATS by H2 2026.
Amy Oldenburg, Morgan Stanley's digital asset head, rejected the FOMO narrative: "This isn't us chasing crypto. We've been building toward this for years."
She's right. Infrastructure takes time. Legacy systems don't upgrade overnight.
But the direction is clear. The largest US bank by AUM is building a direct Bitcoin product. Their $8 trillion wealth platform, at just 2% allocation, puts $160 billion into Bitcoin.
That's bigger than the entire current Bitcoin ETF market.
The institutions aren't coming.
They've already arrived.
Published at
2026-03-25 03:51:09 UTCEvent JSON
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