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Morgan Stanley is months away from offering crypto trading to retail customers through its E-Trade division as the Wall Street giant embraces what it called a transformative moment for the wealth management industry.

The firm is working with the startup Zerohash — which Morgan Stanley also took an investment stake in — for liquidity, custody and settlement around crypto trading, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.

"We are well underway in preparing to offer crypto trading through a partner model to E-Trade clients in the first half of 2026," Jed Finn , head of wealth management at Morgan Stanley, said in the memo.

Morgan Stanley is among the most aggressive of big banks in embracing crypto after the

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