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European Digital-Asset Banking: A Q1 2026 Snapshot

Which European banks are active in digital-asset services, what they offer, and what is still missing.

2026-01-13 8 min readBy Atlas Research

We surveyed sixty-eight European banks across deposit-taking, payment-services, and investment-services licences. Twenty-two are publicly active in digital-asset services as of Q1 2026 — up from fourteen a year earlier. The shape of that activity, however, is far narrower than the headline number suggests.

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