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Here’s Why Crypto Custodian Anchorage Joined an Alternative Investment Association
Anchorage helped write the first crypto custody report for the Alternative Investment Management Association – a potential gateway to hedge fund clients.
By Ian Allison
Updated May 11, 2023, 5:58 p.m. Published Mar 1, 2022, 2:00 p.m.
Regulated crypto custody firm Anchorage is joining the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), a policy group for the fund management industry with over 2,000 members including most of the world’s hedge funds.
Anchorage has also contributed to AIMA’s first-ever Digital Asset Custody Report, which will come out in March.
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Institutional capital is flowing into the digital assets space, with nimble investment firms like Brevan Howard and Point72 leading the charge, plus a host of other hedge fund managers operating below the radar.
What Anchorage is doing in the digital asset space, in terms of working with regulators and becoming a federally chartered bank, is similar to the evolution of the alternative investments back in the day, said Anchorage’s relationship manager, Nicole Civitello.
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“We’ve seen this story play out before if you look at hedge funds in the early ‘90s,” Civitello said in an interview. “It was very much like the Wild West; there was no regulation and you had an industry that was mainly retail and individuals at first. Once a regulatory framework was introduced and the rules were established, then there was an opportunity for institutions to come in with capital in a meaningful way.”
Anchorage was valued at over $3 billion in a $350 million funding round late last year.
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