Directorul Băncii ANZ: „Greutatea banilor” înseamnă că cripto nu poate fi ignorat

One of the ANZ bank’s senior executives has told a Blockchain Australia forum that the crypto sector has grown too big to be ignored by traditional finance.

The comments came a day after rival Commonwealth Bank announced that it would roll out servicii de tranzacționare criptografică for 10 digital assets via its Commbank app.

The “State of Play” forum was held by Blockchain Australia on Nov. 4 and featured representatives from organizations including Mastercard, ANZ and NAB offering their take on the crypto sector in the wake of CBA’s play.

Astăzi am găzduit „State of Play” cu peste 1200 de înregistrări și vorbitori de la unele dintre cele mai recunoscute companii din Australia.

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Nigel Dobson, ANZ’s Banking Services Portfolio Lead stated that the growth of the crypto and blockchain tech over the past 12 to 18 months has put the sector firmly on the bank’s radar:

„Există o astfel de greutate a banilor pe care pur și simplu, la un moment dat, nu o poți ignora, nu? Și știi, în lumea DeFi pe care o urmăm de ceva vreme sau chiar doar în spațiul valutar, doar greutatea banilor și calitatea banilor care se mută în aceste locuri ne face să ne gândim, ei bine, ce se întâmplă aici?”

“When you look under the hood on that, we’ve concluded that this is a major protocol shift for financial market infrastructure,” he added.

Dobson is a senior banker with more than 30 years of experience at Barclays, Citibank and ANZ. He likened the technological advancements brought about by blockchain tech to the transformative effects the Internet had on global commerce in the early 2000s.

“We’re seeing the same kind of shift occurring here. We’re shifting to more decentralized, arguably more trusted, more secure, faster, cheaper, better — yet to be proven —but if that’s the thesis that these protocols can generate better outcomes and new business models, then they can’t be ignored,” he said.

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None of the other members of Australia’s big four banks has announced any immediate plans to follow CBA in enabling crypto trading. Dobson stated that it was unclear how CBA’s trial would go, but implied that the ANZ is likely to join the party at some stage.

“I think the move that the CBA made yesterday was bold and it is yet to be seen whether those customers will embrace that. But certainly all of what we’ve been talking about today, particularly in this section of the commentary, is that that the ship has sailed. And so what it is that we need to do is to navigate our path towards utilizing these networks,” he said.

The bullish comments mark a significant change from the bank, which recently settled a case with Canberra-based Bitcoin trader Aaron Flynn after he took legal action against ANZ over de-banking between 2018 and 2019 due to his work as a Digital Currency Exchange (DCE).

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/anz-bank-executive-the-weight-of-money-means-crypto-can-t-be-ignored