UK Investors Can Now Integrate Their Crypto Holdings With Their Bank Accounts

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25 February 2021

U.K. personal finance tool Money Dashboard is allowing its 600,000 users to view their crypto holdings alongside their bank accounts and other financial products within its app.

  • Users will be to use the Money Dashboard app to access their balances and transactions on exchanges such as Coinbase, Binance and Bitstamp.
  • The U.K. company is providing this service in partnership with Zabo, a Dallas-based crypto software firm that aims to connect crypto wallets to bank accounts.
  • Zabo's goal, according to co-founder Christopher Brown, is to simplify the process of integrating crypto with traditional finance products through partnerships with financial services companies.
  • The collaboration with Money Dashboard is its first such partnership with a U.K. firm.
  • U.K. regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) estimates that around 1.9 million adults hold cryptocurrency, 75% of whom own less than £1,000 (US$1,400).

See also: Ex-London Stock Exchange Chief Says UK Should Embrace Crypto Post-Brexit

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