German Dwpbank to offer Bitcoin trading to 1,200 affiliate banks on new platform


Deutsche WertpapierService Bank (Dwpbank), which provides value processing to around 1,200 banks in Germany, is creating a new platform, wpNex, which will offer Bitcoin (BTC) to all retail customers of its subsidiaries in the second half of this year.

The new service will feature crypto accounts alongside other bank customer accounts and will not require additional Know Your Customer procedures, according to local media reports.

Wallet-as-a-service provider Tangany and Bankhaus Scheich's Tradias digital asset trading service will also participate in the new offering. Retail customers will not have private keys. Heiko Beck, CEO of Dwpbank saying the bank planned to add other cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and tokenized securities to the service in the future.

MLB Banking was the first Dwpbank affiliate to log into the platform and has already made a transaction on it. MLP Banking's head of account and securities processing, Paul Utzat, saying in a sentence:

"On our MLP client portal, it's a logical addition to the existing wealth management offering."

Crypto accounts are linked to euro cash accounts, so transactions can be made without going through a separate payment account.

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Germany has been named one of the best in the world most favorable countries for cryptocurrencies. DZ Bank announced in February that i was adding crypto at your asset management service. DZ Bank is Germany's second largest bank by assets and a central institution for a network of cooperative banks with 8,500 branches.

The German crypto bank Nuri, however, close in november under the stress of the crypto bear market. He had half a million customers. On the traditional finance side, Deutsche Bank stocks plummeted on March 24 as instability spread among European banks. Deutsche Bank DWS asset management division supposedly he was in talks with tradias on investment in the service.

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