Isabelle Mateos Y Lago, multi-asset strategist at BlackRock, a management company investment with $ 5.7 billion in assets under management, said the company keeps the cryptocurrency under "scrutiny" as an "interesting development."

S Addressing Bloomberg TV Monday, Jan. 29, the executive said that although cryptocurrency did not constitute "an investable asset" For the largest fund manager in the world currently, it was actively following the progress because it "is evolving very quickly."

Comments are tempered by those of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who was recorded last week at the World Economic Forum 2018 to describe the space as a "money laundering index" and previously implied that he did not intend to enter the future arena of Bitcoin ETF.

While the dust settles on the Japanese However, Mateos Y Lago saw little reason to totally reject the cryptocurrency investment.

"The fact that the interest persisted despite these repeated hacks," she continues, describing the customer demand for Bitcoin to BlackRock, "despite the fact that regulators wake up and try to catch up with this new development and gradually eliminate all illegal uses, there is really something to do there. "

Adopting a "no-now-but-later" point of view on interaction, BlackRock echoes the sentiments of Deutsche Bank leader Markus Mueller, who also told Bloomberg that crypto is "speculative" ". "Investors now, the next five to ten years should see the progress of the regulations allow its treatment as an" established asset class. 19459004 19459007 There are many ways to enter; the question is, are they safe? " Mateos Y Lago continued on investment opportunities Blockchain and ICO, saying that it was " difficult to assign them a fair value " for regular investors.