By Segment
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By Region
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Across the total population of those surveyed year-on-year, 37% of firms now have an employee crypto-trading policy in place. Firms’ attitudes around the monitoring of employee exposure to crypto assets have stayed relatively consistent from 2021 to 2022: one camp has chosen to get ahead of regulation, and the other is comfortable waiting until regulation arrives.
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The number of firms that are ”not confident” in their understanding of how employees are trading cryptocurrencies and/or digital assets decreased year-on-year by 13%. While the reasons for this change are likely the result of heightened attention from regulators, and improved awareness and education of crypto-trading and transactions work, more than 40% of those surveyed still lack confidence, which indicates that there is still work to be done to improve the monitoring of employee crypto-trading activity.
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The majority of survey respondents (63%) identify Millennials as the generation of employees that trade crypto/digital assets the most. This is likely because Millennials are the first 'digital natives', for whom trading digital assets is not significantly different from trading any other asset. This contrasts sharply with Baby Boomers, only 1% of whom are estimated to hold digital assets. This could be explained by the general tendency for older generations to be more comfortable with traditional forms of finance.
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More than half (57%) of respondents estimate that their employees invest less than 25% of their tradable assets in crypto.
However, 39% did not know how much of their employees’ tradable assets are invested in crypto, which may have contributed to a lower level of confidence in firms’ understanding of their employees’ crypto trading activity as seen above in Figure 4.
60% of respondents expect formal regulation and guidance on employee crypto/digital asset trading activity in the next 18 months, with a small subset not expecting regulatory policies to be implemented anytime soon.
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