Here are a few things.
Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International announced its plan to offer cryptocurrency trading services to its retail customers.
This pioneering step will commence by the end of January 2024, marking a new era in the bank’s 97-year history.
https://cryptopotato.com/major-bank-to- ... rs-report/
Things are however not as good across the pond.
“We’ve dedicated ourselves to providing the best Bitcoin experience with Wallet of Satoshi, being at the forefront of Lightning usability and adoption. However, we’ve made the difficult decision to remove our app from the U.S. Apple and Google app stores, and will not serve U.S. customers going forward.”
https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoin-lightn ... us-market/
For those who don't know WoS is a CUSTODIAL wallet. Arguably, if bitcoin is money, that could mean that such custodial services should be subject to banking licenses. Which of course requires a fee and surveillance of transactions.
Back on this side of the pond, regulators seem to have the view that non-custodial or self custody wallets are what should be prevented.
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulat ... -showdown/
One gets the impression that they would like to ban cash itself because of the difficulty in tracking transactions. Something of course required to prevent money laundering.