The "BBVA" Bank offers Bitcoin and Ethereum trading services to its clients in Spain.
The “Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria” bank, commonly known as (BBVA), the second largest bank in Spain, announced the availability of Bitcoin and Ethereum trading services for its private sector clients through its application.
The service will be rolled out gradually, starting with a small group of users, after the bank meets the requirements of “MiCA” and completes the regulatory procedures with “CNMV”.
The bank has not specified a date to expand the service to clients outside of private banking, meaning it remains available only to those who meet the bank's wealth criteria at this time.
This expansion comes after the bank offered similar services in Switzerland since 2021, and in Turkey through “Garanti BBVA Kripto” since January 2025.
Although traditional banks are still hesitant to offer cryptocurrency trading to individuals, new regulations in the European Union, such as “MiCA”, provide more clarity.
In this context, “Standard Chartered” Bank announced a new entity for the custody of digital assets in Luxembourg, while other European banks have started purchasing Bitcoin, such as the Italian bank “Intesa San Paolo”, which invested one million euros in Bitcoin last January.
