{"id":213215,"date":"2026-08-14T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=213215"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:03:41","slug":"israeli-bank-leumi-to-debut-bitcoin-trading-with-galaxy-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=213215","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Bank Leumi to Debut Bitcoin Trading With Galaxy Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Israeli Bank Leumi to Debut Bitcoin Trading With Galaxy Digital<\/a><\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s biggest bank, Bank Leumi, will become the first lender in the country to offer customers Bitcoin trading, according to a Friday announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lender will work with Galaxy Digital to provide the service, which will become available to customers early next year, the announcement said<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bank Leumi first announced<\/a> plans to debut crypto trading in 2022 but shelved the initiative. The latest project will use GalaxyOne Institutional, Galaxy\u2019s institutional platform for banks, asset managers and other institutions for trading and other services, to debut the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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JUST IN: Israel’s largest bank is entering Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

Bank Leumi will allow customers to buy, hold and sell Bitcoin directly through its banking app.<\/p>\n

The service is expected to launch in early 2027. pic.twitter.com\/I7QXezzDDR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) August 14, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe believe that digital assets are gradually becoming an integral part of the global financial system, and it is our role to enable customers to benefit from this development within a reliable, secure, and regulated banking framework,\u201d Bank Leumi\u2019s Head of Strategy, Maya Ravia, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The statement added that customers will also be able to trade other cryptocurrencies on top of Bitcoin. Leumi\u2019s mobile banking app, PEPPER, will also provide the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of finance will run on open, programmable rails, and we believe the banks that move first will define the era that follows,\u201d Galaxy Israel CEO Lior Lamesh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are building one platform for trading and custody, with institutional-grade security at its core, and the onchain rails beneath it, through Galaxy Infrastructure and GalaxyOne Institutional, for banks around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to Chainalysis, crypto adoption in Israel has been steadily growing over the years, with geopolitical headwinds including the war in Gaza and Iran, leading Israelis to digital assets as a \u201csafe-haven.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post Israeli Bank Leumi to Debut Bitcoin Trading With Galaxy Digital<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Israeli Bank Leumi to Debut Bitcoin Trading With Galaxy Digital Israel\u2019s biggest bank, Bank Leumi, will become the first lender in the country to offer customers Bitcoin trading, according to a Friday announcement.\u00a0 The lender will work with Galaxy Digital to provide the service, which will become available to customers early next year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":213216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}