Citi Custody+ Brings Bitcoin Into Wall Street’s Always-On Shift

• Citi is rebuilding custody around continuous settlement rather than traditional batch processing.
• Bitcoin will become the first crypto asset integrated into the new custody framework.
• Tokenized deposits give institutional clients a 24/7 cash leg alongside faster securities servicing.
• The strategy points toward hybrid markets where traditional securities and digital assets share infrastructure.

Citi is redesigning one of banking’s least visible functions for a market that increasingly refuses to close. The bank launched Custody+ on August 18, bringing real-time asset servicing, faster settlement, liquidity management, foreign exchange and forthcoming digital-asset custody into one institutional framework. The significance goes beyond processing corporate actions faster. Citi is preparing the same custody architecture to handle traditional securities and crypto, creating infrastructure for a financial market where assets may trade continuously even when conventional banking and post-trade systems historically did not.

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