As far as cryptocurrencies are concerned, institutional investors are even more than careful in 2025, as the U.S. Großbank JPmorgan determined in a survey.
• Crypto remains the border issue for institutional investors
• AI when trade in focus
• Macro risks dominate
In the 2025-E-trading insights survey, JPmorgan has asked more than 4,200 institutional investors between 9 and 23, 2025, which topics they are most busy in the current year to get an overview of the market mood in the institutional segment. It became clear that investments in cryptocurrencies are only in the second row among the market experts.
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Majority is not planning a crypto trade in 2025
71 percent of the respondents do not intend to act with cryptocurrencies this year. Although there were around eight percent more skeptics in the previous year, the lack of interest in institutional investors in this area seems to continue to be high.
16 percent of the survey participants are taking action for this year to become active on the cryptom market, 13 percent are already doing this at the current time. Both groups rose in the previous year comparison.
AI increasingly in focus
When asked which technologies will have the greatest influence on the stock exchange trading in the next three years, the tenor was clear: the majority of the respondents, a total of 67 percent, consider artificial intelligence and machine learning to be the most influential technology across all investment classes and regions. The proportion of respondents, who see AI as a possible largest influence, rose again: in 2023 only 53 percent, in 2024 61 percent of the survey participants had seen the current trend topic on the market so far ahead.
In second place in the most influential technologies landed with only 15 percent approval rate API integration that Blockchain / Distributed Ledger technology will most clearly influence trade, meanwhile only six percent of those surveyed – in 2024, seven percent of the survey participants had approved.
E-trading increasingly important
When asked how much percent of trade in institutional investors will be handled via e-trading channels, the basic view of the market experts is that trading will continue to increase over these channels. The survey participants with a forecast increase by ten percent to 69 percent are far ahead, followed by raw materials whose trade is expected from nine percent to 73 percent. According to the experts, e-trading trading in the crypto area or with digital coins should continue to attract further: the estimate is also nine percent to 71 percent.
The survey therefore shows – regardless of the fact that institutional investors apparently show few ambitions for investments in the cryptom market – an unanimous interest in increasing online or electronic trading activities.
Customs do institutional investors
In the meantime, the experts basically expect the strongest influencing factors for the 2025 markets from the Economic and Geopolitical Selpritic. 51 percent of the survey participants identified inflation and tariffs as the largest influencing factors – compared to the previous year’s value of 27 percent, a significant increase. The concern for geopolitical tensions drove 18 percent of institutional investors – the previous year, only 14 percent of the market experts had identified this point as an important influence for the market. In addition, twelve percent of the survey participants are concerned about market and economic faults – in 2024 this was still an important point for 14 percent of those surveyed. However, the tensions between the USA and China have meanwhile increased as a possible influence factor for the markets among institutional investors – instead of six percent, eleven percent of the survey participants see risks here. In addition, recession risks have apparently taken the background: only seven percent of the survey participants consider this in 2025 a major factor in influence – in 2024 this was still 18 percent, in 2023 even 30 percent of institutional investors saw risks.
Editor finance.net