Partnership Upgrade! OKX Joins Forces with Standard Chartered to Expand into Europe
On October 15, Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe, announced that OKX is expanding its strategic partnership with Standard Chartered to the European Economic Area (EEA).
Earlier this year, OKX and Standard Chartered first joined forces in the UAE to launch the collateral mirroring program — an industry-first innovative service that allows institutional clients to securely hold Assets in custody with a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), while simultaneously "mirroring" those balances on the OKX platform for Trading.
This mechanism gives clients the best of both worlds: bank-grade Asset custody combined with an efficient Trading experience, significantly reducing Trading counterparty risk and enhancing Trading confidence while keeping Assets secure.
Today, OKX is extending this service to all customers across the European Economic Area. This milestone reflects the trust and foresight that Standard Chartered — the first and currently only G-SIB to directly partner with a crypto Trading venue — has placed in OKX. It also signals the growing recognition of this model by regulators. This marks a significant alignment between traditional finance and crypto assets markets on compliance and trust standards, delivering greater security and credibility for institutions and their clients.
By extending this partnership to Europe, clients can now securely and efficiently manage and Trade digital assets on a truly global scale. For OKX, this is more than an expansion — it is a meaningful step toward building a safer, more reliable crypto assets ecosystem in Europe.
Margaret Harwood-Jones, Global Head of Finance, Treasury and Securities Services at Standard Chartered, summarized the partnership: "This expansion deeply combines our proven custody infrastructure with OKX's compliance framework, ensuring the highest standards of security and compliance for institutional clients in Europe."
That is the shared goal — meeting the real needs of institutional investors in a regulated, trustworthy environment.
From OKX's perspective, the combination of our MiCA license and this custody partnership demonstrates our long-term commitment to the European market. MiCA provides regulatory clarity and certainty, enabling institutional clients to deploy capital in a safe and compliant environment. Through innovative solutions like collateral mirroring, we help clients Trade efficiently in a protected setting.
At the end of the day, OKX's core principles are: trust, regulation, and innovation.
With a partner like Standard Chartered, OKX is bringing these principles to life in one of the world's most important financial markets.
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