As the cryptocurrency market cap cracks the $100 billion barrier, electronic/digital money like bitcoin has become difficult for finance's old guard to ignore.
Falcon Private Bank is now the first Swiss bank to offer CRYPTO-currency asset management services.
Through you can buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin.
Online statements will be available to the customer to allow them to watch their account. They will even have a Bitcoin ATM in the lobby of their Zurich branch.
The asset broker for the bank is Bitcoin Swiss AG,
Bitcoin Swiss AG provides full services to acquire
track, trade, and safeguard the assets. Bitcoin Swiss AG also offers ICO services.
According to Nicolas Nokolajsen, CEO of Bitcoin
Swiss AG, K 'a bank offering crypto assets is a game changer, as it gives institutional clients and high net worth individuals a counterparty in regard to crypto assets upon which they can rely: a regulated Swiss bank.
Bitcoin Swiss AG also provides the crypto-payment Solution structure for the town of Zug, which in 2016 became the first public entity worldwide to Bitcoin and other crypto-assets for payment for public Services.
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