Raiffeisen partners with Bitpanda for CEE crypto rollout

Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International has agreed a group-wide partnership with Bitpanda to offer crypto access to its roughly 18 million customers across Central and Eastern Europe. The framework, announced September 23, is expected to put digital-asset buying directly inside local Raiffeisen banking apps, with the service extended to local subsidiaries in the coming months under the EU's MiCA framework.

• The tie-up is one of the largest bank-broker crypto distribution deals in Europe, covering Raiffeisen's network across CEE.
• No financial terms or exact rollout timeline were disclosed.