South Africa’s FNB Is Rethinking How Banks Offer Crypto
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FNB has launched crypto trading inside its platform in partnership with VALR, with customers able to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and USDT from R10. The offering is structured as an investment product rather than an open-wallet service, and customers cannot move the assets to external wallets.
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FNB customers are the main group affected today because the bank has opened crypto trading inside its own platform, with a R10 entry point and 24/7 access. People using the service will see crypto alongside normal banking access rather than through a separate wallet product.
In practice, this changes access to crypto through a bank channel, while the setup still keeps assets inside FNB’s offering instead of allowing transfers to outside wallets. What remains the same is that the service is still built on regulated infrastructure from VALR and still sits inside a bank product rather than becoming a standalone wallet service.
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