{"id":30966,"date":"2020-10-30T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30966"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:51:51","slug":"gazprombanks-swiss-subsidiary-granted-approval-to-offer-cryptocurrency-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/gazprombanks-swiss-subsidiary-granted-approval-to-offer-cryptocurrency-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazprombank&#8217;s Swiss subsidiary granted approval to offer cryptocurrency services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd, the Swiss subsidiary of the Russian Gazprombank, has received approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to operate cryptocurrency accounts for corporate and institutional clients. This is stated in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gazprombank.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201029_Press-Release_Gazprombank-Switzerland-Ltd-receives-FINMA-authorization-for-crypto-offering.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">press release<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clients will now have the ability to store and exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat through Gazprombank. At this stage, the service covers the buying and selling of Bitcoin, with the bank planning to add support for other cryptocurrencies in due course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, access to the new services will be limited to a restricted group of clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in spring 2018, it was disclosed that Gazprombank planned to begin crypto operations through its Swiss subsidiary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December 2018, Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> entered into a partnership with Metaco to launch a crypto-asset management service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss subsidiary Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd, part of the Russian Gazprombank, has received approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to operate cryptocurrency accounts for corporate and institutional clients. This is stated in the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[922,671,468],"class_list":["post-30966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-finma","tag-gazprombank","tag-switzerland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}