... But it is hardly to be expected that the attitude of the country's banking elite to crypto-currencies from this will change at once
DNB ASA is the largest bank in Norway (market capitalization is almost 240 billion US dollars). Therefore, everything that is somehow connected with crypto-currencies, for the time being was for this financial institution under the ban. But recently it became clear that the philosophy "I do not see anything, I do not hear anybody" is a dead-end, therefore the bank was closely interested in various technologies of the distributed registry in general and crypto-currencies in particular.
The bank already participates in several projects, one way or another related to Ethereum, Hyperledger and EOS, but the appetite, as is known, comes with eating. Yesterday, official representatives of DNB ASA announced that the financial institution and the IOTA fund are now partners. The priority goals of "fiery friendship" are to search for new efficient business models and develop innovative, more effective methods of working with clients. This is what Lasse Meholm, the head of DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), told DNB ASA today.
A similar opinion is shared by one of the founders and "spiritual leaders" of IOTA David Sønstebø (David Sønstebø). He is sure that the partnership will help soften the attitude of Norwegian financial and business circles to the blockade and the crypto-currencies, because now their status in the country is still very doubtful.
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https://ucg.co/news/krupneyshiy-bank-norvegii-obyavil-o-sotrudnichestva-s-iota