America’s Fifth-Largest Banking Institution US Bank to Offer Cryptocurrency C...
On April 27, the American bank holding company U.S. Bank revealed in a blog post that the financial institution plans to offer cryptocurrency custody services. The bank’s chief strategy officer for U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, Christine Waldron, says she is proud of her company’s steps toward blockchain and cryptocurrency practices. US Bank to Offer Cryptocurrency Services Pending Compliance Approval During the first week of January 2021, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) revealed that national banks and savings associations in the U.S. could deal with....
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On Wednesday, the world’s largest family-owned banking institution, LGT Bank, announced that it has selected SEBA Bank in order to provide cryptocurrency custody and brokerage services to clients. LGT will start by offering investments in bitcoin and ethereum and the bank’s customers can incorporate the digital assets into their existing LGT Bank-managed portfolios. LGT Bank Adds Crypto Services by Partnering With the FINMA Licensed SEBA Bank The largest family-owned private banking and asset management firm LGT Group has revealed the parent company’s banking....
As the largest banking and financial institution in Russia and one of the world’s biggest public companies, Sber’s move into digital assets is a significant one. Sber, the largest banking institution in Russia, continues progressing with the development of its blockchain-based platform for issuing digital assets.Anatoly Popov, deputy chairman of the executive board at Sber, said that the bank is planning to have registered its digital asset issuance platform with the Bank of Russia — the country’s central bank — by mid-September, local news agency TASS reported on Thursday.Popov said that....
CNBC has learned that bank giant Morgan Stanley will offer its client access to Bitcoin. According to an internal memo by the banking institution, crypto firm Galaxy Digital and FS NYDIG will enable the product. NYDIG is proud to partner with Morgan Stanley, the first US bank to offer access to #Bitcoin for their wealth […]
India’s largest bank by assets, the State Bank of India (SBI), will be the first in the country to embrace branch-less banking by launching its digital-only bank, SBI Digi Bank. The move by India’s largest bank is significant, in a country that is exhaustingly reliant on banking at physical locations. The digital bank will see a launch sometime in the next 3-6 months, according to a report in Indian daily the Economic Times. The country’s largest lender is initiating its 100% digital banking endeavor within months of an unprecedented demonetization drive enforced by the Indian central....
The South Korean crypto frenzy among the banking industry remains on fire, as another major bank is treading waters to offer banking services for crypto exchanges. The BNK Busan Bank launched a program that consists of visiting competitors’ banks that already offer it. BNK Busan Is Visting Its Competitors to Conduct the Research According to the Busan.com news outlet, the bank researches how these financial institutions deal with the crypto exchanges amid the forthcoming regulation. As the banks provide fiat services to the crypto businesses, the legislation set to promulgate on....