Commonwealth Bank to enable crypto trading for 6.5M Aussies, 'other banks wil...
The CBA stated that it will support 10 crypto assets in its banking app, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is set to launch crypto trading services for the 6.5 million users of its CommBank app. The CBA will become the first bank in Australia to support crypto, and Blockchain Australia says it is “inevitable” that the other ‘big four’ banks including National Australia Bank (NAB), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and Westpac will soon follow suit. According to a Nov. 3 announcement, the CBA has partnered with the....
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the country’s biggest bank, is providing customers with the ability to buy, sell, and hold crypto assets directly through its app. The bank has partnered with crypto exchange Gemini and blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to provide crypto services.
Commonwealth Bank Begins Offering Crypto Services
Commonwealth Bank (CBA), also known as Commbank, announced Wednesday that “it will become Australia’s first bank to offer customers the ability to buy, sell and hold crypto assets,” which will be directly through....
The CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the country’s largest bank, sees big risks in not participating in cryptocurrency. “We see risks in participating, but we see bigger risks in not participating,” he explained.
Crypto FOMO, Banks Need to Get Involved, Says CEO of Commonwealth Bank
Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn talked about the fear of missing out (FOMO) when it comes to bitcoin and cryptocurrency in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Sydney Thursday. Commonwealth Bank, or Commbank, is an Australian multinational bank with....
Traditional banking has taken a wait-and-see approach when it comes to blockchain for far too long. Everyone active in the world of blockchain is well aware of how major banks take a vested interest in this technology. Up until this point, very few of those projects have created something useful. But Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Wells Fargo completed an international trade using distributed ledgers. Several different applications were used in the process. This collaboration between these two global banks and Brighann Cotton Marketing is quite an intriguing one. By using blockchain....
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is on the verge of becoming one of the first banking institutions in the world to use the Ripple network. The plas to adopt Ripple network for payment settlements between its subsidiaries was announced by David Whiteing, the Chief Information Officer of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He was speaking at an even hosted by AIIA (Australian Information Industry Association). With this announcement, the Sydney based bank has surpassed its rivals in London, Hong Kong and New York to become the first one to make use of a digital currency network. Some of the....
Commonwealth Bank and Wells Fargo have announced they are testing blockchain for use in trade finance, focusing on the global cotton market. Working alongside blockchain startup Skuchain and Australian cotton trading firm Brighann Cotton, the two banks facilitated a transaction between a cotton buyer and seller. In statements, Commonwealth said that the test enabled all parties involved "to track a shipment in real time" using a distributed ledger. Michael Eidel, executive general manager for Commonwealth Cash-flow and Transaction Services office, said in a statement: "The....