{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"114114","rtpr_id":"nBw5BKXqfa","ticker":"NTRS","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["NTRS"],"title":"Northern Trust Engages Lukka to Enhance Digital Asset Data and Reporting Capabilities","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-08-10T13:00:00.982Z","article_body":"Northern Trust Engages Lukka to Enhance Digital Asset Data and Reporting\nCapabilities\n\nNorthern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced today it has entered into an agreement\nwith Lukka to deliver an institutional-grade digital asset reporting\ncapability, expanding Northern Trust’s service offering to include enhanced\naccess to digital asset data.\n\nFounded to address complex financial challenges in the digital asset market,\nLukka provides institutional-grade digital asset data infrastructure,\nsoftware, and analytics designed to help organizations ingest, normalize,\nreconcile, and report on complex on- and off-chain activity. The firm’s\nplatform supports institutional use cases across digital asset data\nmanagement, reporting, valuation, compliance, and risk workflows.\n\nThe new capability provides clients with enhanced reporting on digital asset\ndata, including transaction history and point-in-time balances with historical\nviews. The service is designed to address the growing need for reliable,\nscalable reporting as institutional participation in digital assets\naccelerates.\n\n“Clients are seeking a more streamlined and institutional approach to\nmanaging and reporting on their digital asset exposures,” said Justin\nChapman, group head of Strategic Partnerships, Digital and Financial Markets\nat Northern Trust. “This relationship with Lukka allows us to deliver a\ncritical capability, bringing together digital and traditional asset\nreporting, while continuing to build toward a more comprehensive,\ninteroperable and connected digital asset servicing model.”\n\nUnder the agreement, Northern Trust will leverage Lukka’s data platform to\nsupport connectivity across 100+ blockchains and 400+ centralized exchange\n(CEX) and decentralized exchange (DEX) sources, along with custodians, OTC\ndesks, wallets, and on-chain activity. This will enable the ingestion of\nwallet, balance, and transaction data while supporting scaled digital asset\nreporting through standardized, high-quality data aggregation and\nnormalization across a broad ecosystem of blockchain networks and digital\nasset service providers.\n\n“We are proud to support Northern Trust as it expands its digital asset\nservicing capabilities for institutional clients,” said Kiet Tran, CEO,\nLukka. “Institutions need digital asset data that is complete, normalized,\nand audit-ready. Lukka’s platform brings together on- and off-chain data\nacross wallets, blockchains, venues, and custodians, helping firms deliver\nconsistent reporting with the controls and transparency expected in\ntraditional finance.”\n\nNorthern Trust unifies digital and traditional market functions to support\nclients navigating the fast-developing digital markets and challenges of\ninvesting in digital assets, alongside allocations to more traditional asset\nclasses.\n\nAbout Lukka\n\nFounded in 2014, Lukka provides enterprise blockchain data and software\nsolutions to financial institutions, exchanges, fund administrators, and\ngovernment agencies. Its platform transforms raw on- and off-chain activity\ninto audit-ready intelligence—powering accounting, compliance, risk, and\nreporting workflows across the digital asset ecosystem.\n\nLukka operates under AICPA SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II frameworks,\ndelivering institutional-grade data and infrastructure for the next generation\nof finance.\n\nLearn more: Website\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Flukka.tech%2F&esheet=54585999&newsitemid=20260810054337&lan=en-US&anchor=Website&index=1&md5=3687682661e0e3bd9132cc11dbb9464b)\n| X (Twitter)\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FLukka&esheet=54585999&newsitemid=20260810054337&lan=en-US&anchor=X+%28Twitter%29&index=2&md5=70b21a3ff198ae32256f0bc7ff169f36)\n| LinkedIn\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Flukkaglobal%2F&esheet=54585999&newsitemid=20260810054337&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=3&md5=d91af688b99246d8042c26cc0cab00ac)\n\nAbout Northern Trust\n\nNorthern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a leading provider of wealth\nmanagement, asset servicing, asset management and banking services to\ncorporations, institutions, affluent families and individuals. Founded in\nChicago in 1889, Northern Trust has a global presence with offices in 24 U.S.\nstates and Washington, D.C., and across 22 locations in Canada, Europe, the\nMiddle East and the Asia-Pacific region. As of June 30, 2026, Northern Trust\nhad assets under custody/administration of US$20.0 trillion, and assets under\nmanagement of US$2.0 trillion. For more than 135 years, Northern Trust has\nearned distinction as an industry leader for exceptional service, financial\nexpertise, integrity and innovation. 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The firm’s\nplatform supports institutional use cases across digital asset data\nmanagement, reporting, valuation, compliance, and risk workflows.\n\nThe new capability provides clients with enhanced reporting on digital asset\ndata, including transaction history and point-in-time balances with historical\nviews. The service is designed to address the growing need for reliable,\nscalable reporting as institutional participation in digital assets\naccelerates.\n\n“Clients are seeking a more streamlined and institutional approach to\nmanaging and reporting on their digital asset exposures,” said Justin\nChapman, group head of Strategic Partnerships, Digital and Financial Markets\nat Northern Trust. “This relationship with Lukka allows us to deliver a\ncritical capability, bringing together digital and traditional asset\nreporting, while continuing to build toward a more comprehensive,\ninteroperable and connected digital asset servicing model.”\n\nUnder the agreement, Northern Trust will leverage Lukka’s data platform to\nsupport connectivity across 100+ blockchains and 400+ centralized exchange\n(CEX) and decentralized exchange (DEX) sources, along with custodians, OTC\ndesks, wallets, and on-chain activity. This will enable the ingestion of\nwallet, balance, and transaction data while supporting scaled digital asset\nreporting through standardized, high-quality data aggregation and\nnormalization across a broad ecosystem of blockchain networks and digital\nasset service providers.\n\n“We are proud to support Northern Trust as it expands its digital asset\nservicing capabilities for institutional clients,” said Kiet Tran, CEO,\nLukka. “Institutions need digital asset data that is complete, normalized,\nand audit-ready. Lukka’s platform brings together on- and off-chain data\nacross wallets, blockchains, venues, and custodians, helping firms deliver\nconsistent reporting with the controls and transparency expected in\ntraditional finance.”\n\nNorthern Trust unifies digital and traditional market functions to support\nclients navigating the fast-developing digital markets and challenges of\ninvesting in digital assets, alongside allocations to more traditional asset\nclasses.\n\nAbout Lukka\n\nFounded in 2014, Lukka provides enterprise blockchain data and software\nsolutions to financial institutions, exchanges, fund administrators, and\ngovernment agencies. Its platform transforms raw on- and off-chain activity\ninto audit-ready intelligence—powering accounting, compliance, risk, and\nreporting workflows across the digital asset ecosystem.\n\nLukka operates under AICPA SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II frameworks,\ndelivering institutional-grade data and infrastructure for the next generation\nof finance.\n\nLearn more: Website\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Flukka.tech%2F&esheet=54585999&newsitemid=20260810054337&lan=en-US&anchor=Website&index=1&md5=3687682661e0e3bd9132cc11dbb9464b)\n| X (Twitter)\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FLukka&esheet=54585999&newsitemid=20260810054337&lan=en-US&anchor=X+%28Twitter%29&index=2&md5=70b21a3ff198ae32256f0bc7ff169f36)\n| LinkedIn\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Flukkaglobal%2F&esheet=54585999&newsitemid=20260810054337&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=3&md5=d91af688b99246d8042c26cc0cab00ac)\n\nAbout Northern Trust\n\nNorthern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a leading provider of wealth\nmanagement, asset servicing, asset management and banking services to\ncorporations, institutions, affluent families and individuals. Founded in\nChicago in 1889, Northern Trust has a global presence with offices in 24 U.S.\nstates and Washington, D.C., and across 22 locations in Canada, Europe, the\nMiddle East and the Asia-Pacific region. As of June 30, 2026, Northern Trust\nhad assets under custody/administration of US$20.0 trillion, and assets under\nmanagement of US$2.0 trillion. For more than 135 years, Northern Trust has\nearned distinction as an industry leader for exceptional service, financial\nexpertise, integrity and innovation. 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