Crypto Bank Xapo Snags European Broker License, Will Offer Stocks Like Apple

Beginning out with a pockets, a cold-storage custody vault and a reserve of 30,000 bitcoin (BTC) again in 2013, Xapo later arrange in Gibraltar underneath its digital asset service supplier (VASP) framework. Since starting the method in 2019, Xapo has been granted a banking license, obtained principal membership with Visa and Mastercard in addition to membership in SWIFT (the worldwide system by way of which banks ship cash to one another). This implies the agency can have interaction straight with correspondent banks, not through fee firms or third events, and have entry to cash market accounts.