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$BTC is back in focus at Bank Leumi, Israel's largest retail lender, after the bank and Galaxy Digital said Thursday they will offer Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana trading to roughly 2.5 million customers inside the Leumi Trade capital markets app.
The service is expected to become available in early 2027, conditional on Bank of Israel sign-off. That is the same approval that killed Leumi's first attempt.
In March 2022, Leumi's mobile banking arm Pepper Invest announced BTC and ETH trading through the crypto infrastructure firm Paxos, billing itself the first Israeli bank to offer the service.
The Bank of Israel never cleared it. What changed between 2022 and now The regulatory framework is different now.
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