BBVA, the second-largest bank in Spain, with about $840 billion in assets, is poised to enter the cryptocurrency trading and custody space, according to two people familiar with the plans. The Spanish bank will begin its crypto offering out of Switzerland.
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Spain’s Second-Largest Bank Will Soon Launch Crypto Services
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“There are still some compliance hurdles so this will not be in December, but I expect they [BBVA] will be live next month,” they added. Asked if BBVA was building its solution primarily to deal with tokenized securities and the like, the source said: “This is a cryptocurrency offering.” BBVA said it could not comment. BBVA is rumored to have integrated the same custody solution for digital assets, called SILO, as Russia’s Gazprombank.
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