You may have misread.  This is not speaking about the whole bitcoin industry, rather just BitPay.

 "BitPay has a tenuous relationship with the banks that it works with due to their heavy involvement [heavier than any other company in the entire world] in Bitcoin and fiat.  In order for BitPay to maintain the contracts and relationships that they have developed [ties that got Tony Gallippi in front of the United States Senate Committees during Bitcoin's Capitol Hill debut] BitPay must play nice with banks."