Commonwealth Bank says Krypto is already mainstream

Commonwealth Bank says Krypto is already mainstream

Commonwealth Bank
  • The managing director of Blockchain and Digital Assets from CBA said that the feedback about the possibility of buying crypto via the Commbank app was "overwhelmingly positive".
  • The bank's statistics on their app use showed that the cryptocurrency had already become "mainstream", said the manager

Australia's largest bank based on total assets has experienced a significant absorption of crypto activities in your app since it was allowed to buy and sell digital assets for the first time last year.

On the first day of the five-day Blockchain Week Conference of Blockchain Australia in Sydney, Sophie Gilder from Commbank, Managing Director of Blockchain and Digital Assets, said that the reactions to the bank's app were "overwhelming".

The reception of his app follows the issue of Commbank Blockchain bonds via the secondary market trade in 2019 and marks an important step in the country towards the user acceptance of the underlying technology.

Together with several other representatives of Macquarie, Visa and JPmorgan,

guilders said that their business decisions related to crypto products in a “fast -developing” environment were largely determined by consumers.

"Around 900,000 of our customers have transferred money to crypto exchanges in the past two years," said Gilder. "One of three Australians has a bank relationship with CBA. So we see that this activity takes place, our customers are already there, already in this area. Based on our statistics, you can say that it is already mainstream."

GILDER also said that the feedback was generally positive, but the biggest complaint about the bank's app came from customers who had not yet been included in the pilot project.

CBA already announced in November that it would start its crypto pilot program To choose that enable you to buy, sell and keep digital assets directly via the bank's Combank app. After the start in December, the bank was the first of its kind in Australia to offer its customers crypto products directly.

In order to support the design and custody service, the Gemini crypto exchange and the blockchain analysis company Chainalysis were consulted for support. There are currently 10 crypto-assets for sale, including Bitcoin and ether.

The Chainalysis tool suite enables the bank to "analyze exactly what happens in the blockchain," said Gilder, who added: "You may not have had this degree of trust five years ago."


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