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SEC Proposes Rules Setting Out How Investment Advisers and Funds May Custody Crypto Assets
The proposal would permit self-custody under specified conditions and allow state trust companies to serve as custodians, amending rules under the 1940 Advisers and Investment Company Acts.
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By Marcus Elrod
Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday proposed a framework governing how registered investment advisers and regulated funds may hold crypto assets, in what the agency presented as a modernization of custody rules written decades before digital assets existed.
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Marcus Elrod
Marcus tracks positioning, flows and rates. He writes CI's weekly market internals column.
Marcus Elrod writes for Corporate Insider Inc.