Bitpanda joins the Visa Fintech Partner Connect program
In collaboration with Austrian fintech Unicorn BitpandaVisa’s partners will be able to access Bitpanda‘s extensive investment infrastructure solutions. This enables financial institutions, banks and fintechs to quickly offer trading and investment services for asset classes such as crypto, stocks/ETFs, precious metals and commodities to their end clients. Alongside this partnership Bitpanda Technology Solutions will begin expanding its investment infrastructure outside of Europe.
Due to increasing user demand, many banks and fintechs from around the world have started working on their crypto use cases, which range from offering investments to retail clients, high net worth private banks and even corporates for their treasury activities. This increase in focus can be seen in the series of collaborations recently launched by Bitpanda, which includes the largest challenger bank in Continental Europe, N26. Driven by market competition, Bitpanda expect adoption to continue to grow exponentially in the years ahead, as regulatory bodies in parallel provide clearer frameworks for banks to safely engage in the industry.
Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad, CEO of Bitpanda Technology Solutionssays, “As the demand for cryptocurrencies continues to increase, banks must take proactive steps to meet the changing needs of their customers. Bitpanda TechnologyThe SaaS solution provides financial institutions worldwide with the infrastructure they need to deploy the most scalable and secure way to build all relevant crypto use cases. We are excited about cohabitant with Visa and to be able to offer our solution to their outstanding network of financial institutions around the world.”
Ute König-Stemmler, Central Europe Head of Business Development Visacomments, “We are pleased to welcome Bitpanda to Visa Fintech Cohabitant Connect Program. The partnership will help banks integrate a trading platform for securities and other assets into their banking app.”
Bitpandaalready known for providing digital trading services to several European banks, including European Neobank N26, announced the expansion of its B2B offering with the launch of Bitpanda Technology Solutions earlier this year. By being a part of Visa Fintech Cohabitant Connect program their clients can connect with digital-first, next generation solutions and open up to new opportunities. The unicorn already gives over 20 million European customers access to crypto trading via its infrastructure. Partners can build their own user experiences on an ISO 27001-certified and battle-proof infrastructure.
In addition, Bitpandathe infrastructure is set up as a modular system to enable our partners to pick and choose among our features such as savings plans, asset-to-asset swaps, crypto staking, fractional shares, full blockchain service and many more via one easy API integration. Custody for cryptocurrencies is provided by Bitpanda Custody, an institutional custody provider regulated by the FCA.
Bitpanda offers its services on a global level, enabling banks and fintechs from around the world to build a crypto trading offering in less than three months. This, combined with Bitpandamore than 8 years in the investment and crypto industry, makes it a unique product that can educate and empower financial institutions to provide customized crypto trading and investment experiences.
Current partners include German digital bank N26, French money app Lydia, UK fintech Plum and the Italian open banking provider Fabrick, among others.
