Prospects in Germany will be capable to purchase, promote and maintain Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Polygon and Cardano alongside their different investments.
The cryptocurrency providing is now obtainable to all Openbank clients in Germany and will probably be rolled out in Spain within the coming weeks.
16 September 2025.
Openbank, Grupo Santander’s 100% digital financial institution, continues to develop its product providing by permitting clients to commerce the primary cryptocurrencies listed available on the market.
Beginning right this moment, the financial institution will allow clients to purchase, promote or maintain Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Polygon and Cardano along with their different investments. And all this with out having to switch cash to every other platform, in addition to having fun with the backing of Santander and the ensures and investor safety offered by the European Markets in Crypto-Belongings Regulation (MiCA).
Over the approaching months, Openbank will develop its portfolio of accessible cryptocurrencies and can provide new functionalities comparable to conversion between completely different cryptocurrencies.
Coty de Monteverde, Head of Crypto at Grupo Santander, acknowledged: “By incorporating the primary cryptocurrencies into our funding platform, we’re responding to the demand of a few of our clients and proceed to strengthen a broad vary of services by an agile, easy expertise platform backed by one of many world’s main monetary teams.”
The brand new cryptocurrency trading service comes with aggressive charges of 1.49% on asset sale and purchases (with a minimal of €1 per operation) and no custody charges. In just a few weeks, these property may even be obtainable to Openbank clients in Spain.
This service strengthens Openbank’s providing to buyers in Germany by progressive services. It at the moment offers an automatic funding service, Robo Advisor; a portfolio of greater than 3,000 shares; 3,000 funding funds from over 123 asset managers; and greater than 2,000 ETFs. In latest weeks, it has additionally launched a dealer platform outfitted with synthetic intelligence-based instruments that ship goal costs for greater than 1,000 European and US shares.
