# Bloomberg Expands Analytics to Classify Basel Crypto Exposures

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-10-24T17:27:50.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-24T17:27:50.000Z
Section: Business

> The update spans funds, derivatives and traditional securities. Its analytics flagged about 1,700 funds as potentially relevant to the bank rules.

Bloomberg has expanded Crypto Exposure Analytics to classify cryptoasset and tokenized real-world asset exposure across institutional portfolios, including holdings routed through funds and traditional securities under Basel bank rules.

The service draws on reference data, securities coverage, fund holdings and company financial disclosures. Its rules-based classifications include fields clients can review, validate and challenge. Users can access the analytics through Bloomberg Data License and Terminal worksheets, with enterprise delivery through SFTP, REST API and cloud environments.

Coverage includes 125,000 fund tickers, 600 company tickers and 280 government and corporate bonds. It also spans 670 index tickers, 110 spot tickers and currency pairs, 320,000 listed options contracts and 950 listed futures contracts.

The analytics identified about 1,700 funds with potential relevance to the framework. Roughly half did not explicitly list crypto exposure in their stated investment strategies. The announcement did not disclose exposure amounts for those funds or give a date for the analysis; potential relevance does not establish that a fund holds crypto or violates a limit.

“Crypto exposure can hide beneath layers of fund holdings,” said Zane Van Dusen, Bloomberg’s global head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products.

The Basel cryptoasset standard took effect Jan. 1, 2026. It applies to banks and counts direct and indirect Group 2 cryptoasset holdings, including exposure through investment funds and exchange-traded products, toward limits tied to Tier 1 capital. Exposure generally should not exceed 1% of that capital and cannot exceed 2%.

The framework sorts cryptoassets into four groups based on their characteristics and whether they meet specified conditions. Group 1 covers qualifying tokenized traditional assets and assets with qualifying stabilization mechanisms. Group 2 includes assets outside those categories, divided by whether they meet specified hedging criteria.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said Oct. 1 that it is reviewing targeted parts of the standard and expects to provide an update by year-end.