Yapı Kredi Kripto selects Integral trading infrastructure ahead of launch

Yapı Kredi Kripto has selected Integral’s trading technology for its planned cryptocurrency business in Türkiye, putting pricing, liquidity and risk management infrastructure in place ahead of a customer launch.

Integral announced the agreement October 7 and said the subsidiary had implemented those components. The announcement describes the digital asset business as due to launch soon. It does not provide a launch date, customer eligibility rules, supported assets or trading fees.

The agreement expands an existing relationship with Yapı Kredi in foreign exchange. Integral said its history of serving regulated Turkish financial institutions, together with its ability to integrate the system quickly, helped secure the selection. Chief executive Harpal Sandhu described banks’ digital asset requirements in terms of resilience, liquidity, risk controls and regulation, the same operational concerns underlying their traditional markets businesses.

For customers, the eventual offering will depend on more than an installed trading system. Prices, access to liquidity and controls around trading risk are necessary parts of the service described by Integral. Wednesday’s announcement identifies that infrastructure work; it supplies no evidence of customer trading volume or completed transactions on the new platform.

The bank describes a separate platform and custody role

Yapı Kredi’s own corporate profile says the crypto platform was established in 2026 and received establishment permission under the Capital Markets Board’s March 26 bulletin, numbered 2026/18. The company is wholly owned by Yapı ve Kredi Bankası.

The profile describes planned cryptocurrency buying, selling and transfer services. It assigns custody of the assets connected with those services to the parent bank and says the bank’s custody license application received a favorable response from the regulator. Those statements describe the ownership and custody arrangements; they do not establish that the platform is already taking customer orders.

The bank profile and Integral announcement are consistent on the central timing point: the platform’s offering is being prepared. Establishing the subsidiary, selecting technology and making a service available to customers are separate steps. Neither source specifies when the last of those steps will occur.

Independent reporting by Bitcoinist also characterized the agreement as preparation for the bank’s upcoming crypto business. Its October 7 account focused on the integration of liquidity, pricing and risk tools into the planned service.

The development gives the bank’s crypto plans a named technology supplier and a clearer operating structure. The remaining practical questions are the launch timetable and the terms on which customers can use the platform. Until the bank publishes those details, the supported news is the implementation of infrastructure for a forthcoming service.