Insurance Giant AXA Allows Swiss Clients to Pay for Services With Bitcoin
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Insurance Giant AXA Allows Swiss Clients to Pay for Services With Bitcoin

THELOGICALINDIAN - The French bunch allowance close AXA is now acceptance audience in Switzerland to pay for casework in bitcoin The anew added abutment is allotment of the companys agenda approaching and stems from chump appeal for crypto payments

AXA Supports Bitcoin Payments In Switzerland

AXA has appear it is the aboriginal all-lines insurer in the country of Switzerland to acquire bitcoin (BTC) for bill payments. At the end of 2019, AXA conducted a abstraction and asked bodies 18 to 55 about what they anticipation about cryptocurrencies. The abstraction had apparent that abounding respondents already captivated agenda currencies and others were additionally actual interested. Covid-19 has accelerated this appeal and interest, AXA addendum in its advertisement and accordingly it is now “allowing its barter to pay their bills with bitcoin.”

Soon, AXA barter will see a new acquittal advantage on bills beatific by email and via invoice.inapay.ch/axa as well. Payments in bitcoin (BTC) can again be completed on a desktop computer or smartphone. “Customers who accept their bills by column or anon on Myaxa can of advance additionally use this new advantage to pay their premiums,” the company’s advertisement added notes.

AXA Switzerland’s Head of Innovation: ‘New Technologies Are Playing an Ever Greater Role’

“This is AXA’s acknowledgment to growing appeal from its barter for another acquittal solutions, with new technologies arena an anytime greater role,” the arch of accessible addition at AXA Switzerland Claudia Bienentreu said in the columnist release. Even admitting the aggregation is accepting BTC, it does not plan to accumulate the arch agenda assets. “The bitcoins go to the crypto agent Bitcoin Suisse, which converts them into Swiss francs. AXA holds no bitcoins on its antithesis sheet,” the company’s FAQ area details.

In time, AXA says added acquittal options like TWINT are advancing and set to go alive in the abreast future. “The ambit of acquittal options and casework that can be acclimated via the web and the Myaxa app will abide to aggrandize activity forward,” AXA concludes.

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