60% of top US banks are geared up for Bitcoin: River

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of crypto exchange Coinbase, said a takeaway from his time at the Davos forum was that most of the bank CEOs he met were pro-crypto.

More than half of the top US banks have either started offering or announced plans to offer Bitcoin-related services such as trading or custody, says Bitcoin financial services firm River.

In an X post on Monday, River shared a list of the top 25 institutions operating in the US, saying, “60% of the top US banks are into Bitcoin.”

On Saturday, crypto exchange Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that a key takeaway from his time at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland, which was held from Jan. 19 until Jan. 23, was that banking CEOs are becoming friendlier toward crypto.

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