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Major banks are preparing to enter the stablecoin market, motivated by the astronomical profits enjoyed by Tether Holdings and the recent regulatory clarity in Europe.
Earlier this year, Societe Generale-Forge (SG-Forge) made its euro-backed stablecoin available to retail investors, offering a fiat-like alternative on a blockchain ledger. The move signaled the beginning of a new era, as banks now aim to capitalize on the rapidly growing stablecoin market.
Financial group Oddo BHF SCA is also working on a euro-denominated stablecoin, while London-based Revolut is considering issuing its own version. AllUnity, a venture involving Deutsche Bank-owned DWS, plans to issue another stablecoin next year, and BBVA is also working on an entry.
In the United States, banks are expected to join the fray once legislation that could pave the way for them to issue stablecoins is enacted.
The recent clarity brought on by the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) in Europe and the decision by Tether to discontinue its EURt stablecoin have presented an opening for competitors wishing to enable customers to make payments or hold fiat-like alternatives.
“Do I think that other banks will be issuing their own stablecoins?” Jean-Marc Stenger, chief executive officer at SG-Forge, said in an interview. “The answer is yes. It's heavy lifting, I am not sure it will happen any time soon, but it will happen.”
SG-Forge is already talking with a number of banks that want to use its stablecoin, Stenger said. It’s also in discussions with about 10 about partnerships or white-labeling its technology for them to issue their own stablecoins, he said.
Meanwhile, the card network Visa Inc, which in October launched a tokenisation network for banks to issue stablecoins, is working with BBVA on a pilot in 2025. And it's in talks with many other banks.
“We've seen demand from banks in Hong Kong, Singapore, in Brazil,” said Cuy Sheffield, Visa's head of crypto. “We are actively engaged with a number of banks across the world at various stages of the process.”
In July, Standard Chartered, in a partnership with blockchain gaming conglomerate Animoca Brands Ltd and Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd, was selected by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as one of the first issuers of Hong Kong dollar-denominated stablecoins in an experimental programme.
The bank hopes the stablecoin could be live in 2025, said Rene Michau, global head of digital assets.
The rush to stablecoins will enhance the role of blockchain in payments on top of a slightly different product that major banks such as JPMorgan Chase have been exploring: deposit tokens.
While similar to stablecoins, they are tied to bank accounts. Tools like JPM Coin have also been used for transfers between customers of the same bank using its own blockchain.
The problem is, the deposit tokens often can't go to clients of a different bank. And billions of people still don't have bank accounts. That's where stablecoins, which anyone with a crypto wallet can purchase, come in.
JPMorgan Chase believes that stablecoin and tokenised deposits are not mutually exclusive, and expects the growing interest in bank-issued stablecoin will accelerate and become mainstream in the next three years, Naveen Mallela, global co-head of JPMorgan's digital asset unit Kinexys wrote in emailed responses.
There are plenty of incentives to offer stablecoins: Customers have been asking for the product, multiple banks report. And then there's the profit motive: Tether is on track to close the year with more than US$10 billion in net profits, according to chief executive officer Paolo Ardoino.
Not all banks – or users – are sold on TradFi issuing its own stablecoins.
Crypto-friendly Xapo Bank, based in Gibraltar, isn't planning to launch one because Tether is already entrenched, said Joey Garcia, board director and chief legal officer at the bank, which lets customers deposit stablecoins in savings accounts.
“We don't want to be in that space, we want to be the tool that allows the efficiency of the blockchain network to interact with the legacy, security of your bank account,” Garcia said.
For banks, risks in issuing stablecoins still abound: A European Central Bank analysis showed that converting retail deposits into stablecoin issuers' deposits weakens a bank's liquidity coverage ratio, which shows a bank's ability to meet short-term obligations and withstand market turbulence.
US regulators will also need to clarify what kinds of reserves are acceptable for banks to use as backing their stablecoins, and whether stablecoin deposits will be insured.
“If banks were to issue uninsured stablecoins alongside insured deposits, there would be significant consumer confusion about what is and isn't insured,” said Hilary Allen, a law professor at
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