Find a bank that speaks crypto

Thirty-six banks, scored on what they actually let you do with digital assets. Answer four questions and meet your match in under a minute.

CBL Scores for 36 banks · 8 criteria · dated sources

Two people walking past a market, phone in hand
247 people matched this week

Choose your bank

Four questions. Your match.

Tell us where you are and what your money needs to do. We'll show the banks that say yes.

Where are you based?

Who is the account for?

What must it do? Pick what matters.

Will you sell crypto P2P and receive buyers' transfers?

No strong match for that combination yet. Loosen one requirement, or browse the full index below.

The index

All 36 banks, scored in the open

Every bank is rated yes, partial, or no on eight criteria. Combine the filters: every combination is its own page with its own address.

Type
Region
Must have

Cards

Crypto cards that actually pay

Tested from the user's side: what the cashback really is after the fine print, where the money sits, and who can freeze it. Availability varies by EEA country. Checked Aug 2026; card terms change fast.

Crypto.com Visa

The cashback ladder. Rewards in CRO, tiered by how much you stake, prepaid top-up from app balance. Read the staking lock terms before chasing the higher tiers.

Get the card →

Nexo Card

The spend-without-selling one. Runs in credit mode against your crypto as collateral, or debit mode. Keeps your position while you pay for groceries; watch the loan-to-value math.

Get the card →

Bybit Card

Spends straight from your exchange balance with cashback tiers. Convenient if Bybit is already your venue; it inherits every freeze risk of an exchange balance.

Get the card →

Krak Card

Kraken's money app with a card attached, rolling out by region. If Kraken is already your cash-out rail, this keeps spending and settlement in one regulated place.

Get started →

Bitget Wallet Card

A card wired to a self-custody wallet on Mastercard rails. Availability varies by country; the appeal is spending without parking funds on an exchange.

Get started →

Wirex Card

The veteran. Multi-currency with Cryptoback in WXT. Strong rails, but read our Wirex fine print above before parking serious money behind it.

Get the card →

Some links on this page are referral links. They never affect scores or rankings.

Exchange rails

How the money actually moves

Every exchange sells crypto. What differs is the banking: how euros get in and out, and how strictly names must match. The one rule everywhere: transfers must come from and go to an account in your own name.

SEPA in and out, instant options via banking partners, strict own-name matching. The partner behind bunq's in-app crypto, which says plenty about its standing with banks.

Dutch, MiCA-licensed, iDEAL and SEPA. The smoothest rails in the Benelux and a natural pair with Dutch banks.

SEPA rails good enough that banks white-label them: the engine behind N26 and Raiffeisen crypto. Own-name transfers, EEA-wide.

EUR deposits and withdrawals run through third-party banking providers and vary by country. Expect stricter checks and slower recoveries when something snags; its banking history is the bumpiest of the majors.

SEPA via partner providers, availability shifting country by country as MiCA licensing settles. Fine for trading; test small before routing a serious cash-out.

SEPA through European partner providers, growing EEA presence under MiCA. Same rule as everywhere: own-name transfers only, and test the rail with a small amount first.

Some links are referral links. They never affect what we write about an exchange, including the critical parts.

The Teller

Notes from the counter

Short, straight pieces on banks, crypto, and the space between them. New notes twice a week.

When it goes wrong

Frozen Account Survival Kit

Your account is frozen. The money you were counting on is suddenly behind glass, nobody at the bank will tell you why, and every hour feels personal. It isn't. Take a breath. This page is the calm walkthrough of what happened and what to do next.

Why this happens

  • Almost every freeze is an automated anti-money-laundering system reacting to a pattern.
  • The usual trigger: an incoming transfer from someone the bank does not know. A P2P buyer, a chain of e-money accounts, or a crypto word in the payment reference.
  • Often it is the sender's history that trips the alarm, not anything you did.
  • A freeze is a question, not a verdict.

The first 48 hours

  • Respond fast, and in writing.
  • Gather evidence before they ask: exchange statements in your name, the transaction history behind the money, proof of where funds originated.
  • Answer exactly what they ask. Complete and honest.
  • Keep every message. Speed and completeness shorten a review.

What not to do

  • Don't rage at support. The person reading your file can close it well.
  • Don't rush remaining funds out in a panic. That movement mimics the pattern that triggered the freeze.
  • Don't invent a story. A false explanation turns a review into a closure.
  • Don't open a new account with untrue answers. It can follow you across banks.

How long, and when to escalate

  • Reviews genuinely take days to weeks, and banks are often legally forbidden from telling you why.
  • Past their stated timelines: file a formal written complaint.
  • Complaint exhausted: go to your country's banking ombudsman or financial complaints authority.
  • Those routes are free, and banks answer to them.

Never be here again

  • The structural answer to a frozen account is simple: never depend on one institution.
  • Keep a self-custody wallet for your crypto, a card from a second provider for spending, and an account at a bank that scores well on the CBL criteria above.
  • Three legs. No single point of failure.

Practical guidance from community experience, not legal advice. For large sums or a closure, a lawyer who knows banking law in your country is worth the call.

Two colleagues working at a desk

For companies

Your startup deserves a bank account too

Getting a business account as a Web3 company is still the hardest part of the job. The index marks every bank that opens its doors to crypto businesses, so you skip the twelve rejections and start with the yes.

Friends taking a photo together

For people

Made for how you actually hold money

Some of your money is in a bank. Some of it lives on-chain. You should not need two financial lives to manage that. We rate the banks that treat both as normal, because for you they are.

Browse