With a minimum buy-in of $10 million, Morgan Stanley has made it clear that this is not a product built for small players. The Wall Street giant quietly revealed Thursday’s Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio, a new offering that allows stablecoin issuers to deposit the money backing their digital tokens into one of the bank’s money market funds and collect interest while they wait.
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A fund built around compliance
The portfolio is held in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Liquidity Funds trust, better known as MSNXX. According to the bank the fund holds cash, short-term U.S. Treasury bonds maturing in 93 days, and overnight repurchase agreements backed by those same Treasuries.
It targets a stable net asset value of $1, prioritizing capital preservation and daily access to funds. There is a management fee of 0.15%. Morgan Stanley said so to offer is designed to meet the requirements of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act – the GENIUS law – a federal law signed in July that established the first formal rules for stablecoin issuers operating in the US.
The passage of the law seemed to open a door. Western Union and Zelle were among the payments companies that entered the stablecoin space after its enactment.
Amy Oldenburg, head of Morgan Stanley’s digital asset strategy, said in a statement that finding new ways to work with stablecoin issuers is part of a broader pressure to modernize the financial infrastructure.
While the fund’s shares are expected to be primarily held by stablecoin issuers, reports indicate that the fund may also accept other qualified investors.
MORGAN STANLEY LAUNCHES STABLECOIN RESERVES FUND
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched the Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio (MSNXX). It is a government money market fund built exclusively for stablecoin issuers.
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Morgan Stanley’s Bigger Crypto Push
The stablecoin product is just one part of a much larger expansion. Earlier this month the bank launched the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust – his own exchange-traded Bitcoin fund – which raked in more than $170 million in net inflows within weeks of its debut.
The company has also filed paperwork with U.S. securities regulators to list funds linked to Ether and Solana. In February, a national charter application for trust banking was filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Monet.
If approved, the charter would allow Morgan Stanley to hold crypto assets, execute trades and settle transfers directly on behalf of clients.
All this comes from one of the largest investment banks in the world. Morgan Stanley manages more than $6 trillion in client assets through approximately 16,000 financial advisors.
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What the offer indicates
The stable coin Reservations Portfolio positions Morgan Stanley not only as a company that trades or holds digital assets, but also as a company that now wants to serve the companies that issue them.
Stablecoin issuers need a safe and regulated place to park the money or short-term securities that back their tokens – and now a major US bank is pitching itself as that destination.
Data from Morgan Stanley’s website confirms the $10 million entry threshold, placing the product firmly in the institutional category.
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