The Turkish crypto custody platform Garanti BBVA Kripto, under Spain's second-largest bank BBVA, is about to open its cryptocurrency trading services to the public. Abel Peña, Chief Sales Officer of the Spanish cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me, revealed that with the EU MiCA regulation fully taking effect on December 30, over 50 European financial institutions have completed integration and are expected to gradually launch crypto services in the first quarter of 2025. As the 43rd largest bank in the world, BBVA had total assets of $857 billion in 2023. (CoinDesk)