THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin Bank Xapo has still not completed its move to Switzerland added than 18 months afterwards announcement the plan
CEO: Swiss is Best
The company, registered in the Cayman Islands but run out of the US, said that authoritative issues were abaft the delays, with Swiss authorities borderline as to how to allocate Xapo’s activities.
“The authoritative ambiance for Bitcoin in Switzerland is actual advanced, conceivably the best in the world,” CEO Wences Casares ahead told bounded account advertisement Finanz Und Wirtschaft.
As 2016 draws to a close, however, a faculty of irony is alpha to edge in. In a allotment on Xapo, the Neure Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) notes it is Switzerland’s cabalistic cyberbanking laws – dating from 1934 – that are giving the aggregation an exceptionable character crisis in the eyes of regulators.
As of now, it reports, banking authorities – accurately Swiss regulator Finma – are still borderline whether the casework Xapo offers accomplish it, in fact, a bank.
NZZ confirms that:
Identity Crisis?
Even Casares himself seems to be authoritative adverse noises. While singing Switzerland’s praises, in the account he additionally declared Xapo as a “bank for Bitcoin.” Olga Feldmeier, the abandoned agent of Xapo’s mostly absent Swiss arm, meanwhile states the opposite.
“We don’t accord out credit, we don’t action any interest-related features,” she said.
Casares meanwhile has been citizen in Switzerland attempting to bright the way for his company’s abounding alteration abroad from the US’ overbearing authoritative and advertisement obligations.
The aggregation already has all the arrangement of a austere operation; its hardware, such as servers, for example, has been stored in above aggressive bunkers in Switzerland back aftermost year. PR photos of the arty bureaucracy accept proudly been appear for all to see.
[Click here to appearance slideshow via NZZ.ch]
The bureaucracy is absolutely impressive. Two accommodation in the alembic handle accumulator in what could able-bodied be Europe’s best accurate facility. Customer affairs are accustomed by a server in one chamber. The requests are downloaded assimilate a USB stick, which is again transferred to a laptop in the additional chamber, which appearance Orwellian-level surveillance.
Nonetheless, as NZZ credibility out, as of December 2024, Xapo is neither a bonafide US nor a Swiss business.
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