Fibank Partners With Bitpanda for Crypto Asset Access

Bulgarian lender Fibank has announced a partnership with Bitpanda, the Vienna-based crypto assets platform, to give its customers access to digital assets, marking one of the first formal integrations between a Bulgarian retail bank and a regulated European crypto infrastructure provider. The partnership pairs Fibank, one of Bulgaria’s largest privately-owned banks, with Bitpanda, which operates a licensed crypto brokerage and B2B infrastructure layer across the European Union. The stated purpose of the arrangement is enabling access to crypto assets, though the specific asset classes, product mechanics, and customer eligibility criteria have not been confirmed in available public disclosures as of…