Digital Asset Custody Risk for Banks : Governance, Controls, Regulation, and Operational Resilience in Cryptoasset Safekeeping
Overview
Digital Asset Custody Risk for Banks is a professional guide to one of the most sensitive control challenges in modern banking: safeguarding cryptoassets, tokenised assets, stablecoins, digital securities, and emerging forms of programmable financial property.
Digital asset custody is not simple wallet storage. It involves private keys, signing authority, wallet architecture, client asset segregation, settlement finality, AML controls, sanctions screening, outsourcing, cloud infrastructure, cyber resilience, audit evidence, capital treatment, insurance, and board accountability. Banks that enter this field face a demanding question: how do they protect client assets when ownership rights, cryptographic control, vendor systems, and regulatory duties interact?
This book provides a structured framework for banks, financial institutions, risk managers, compliance officers, auditors, legal teams, finance teams, technology leaders, board members, academics, and students who need to understand digital asset custody risk in professional terms.
The book explains the meaning of digital asset custody and distinguishes cryptoassets, tokenised assets, stablecoins, and digital securities. It examines self-custody, third-party custody, and hybrid structures. It then analyses the bank's role in safekeeping, settlement, and client asset protection.
A detailed operational risk section covers private keys, hot wallets, cold wallets, multi-party computation, hardware security modules, segregated storage, cyber threats, insider risk, fraud, transaction manipulation, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident response, vendor risk, outsourcing controls, and cloud infrastructure.
The governance and compliance section addresses board oversight, custody risk appetite, AML, sanctions screening, travel rule compliance, blockchain analytics, ownership rights, insolvency risk, regulatory expectations, audit trails, control testing, reporting, and accountability.
The final part develops a practical custody risk management framework. It covers custody risk assessment methodology, control framework design, insurance, capital treatment, loss absorption, case studies of custody failure and exchange collapse, tokenisation, CBDCs, institutional adoption, and continuous custody monitoring.
Digital Asset Custody Risk for Banks is written for readers who need a serious, bank-grade treatment of digital asset custody. It avoids hype. It focuses on governance, controls, legal clarity, operational discipline, and evidence.
Keywords naturally addressed in the book include digital asset custody, crypto custody, bank custody risk, cryptoasset risk management, tokenised assets, stablecoin custody, digital securities, private key management, wallet risk, AML in crypto, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, custody regulation, operational resilience, and client asset protection.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798185542330
- ISBN-10: 9798185542330
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.62 pounds
- Page Count: 204
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