Customers in Germany will be able to buy, sell and have Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Polygon and Cardano alongside their other investments.
The cryptocurrency offer is now available for all openbank customers in Germany and will be deployed in Spain in the coming weeks.
September 16, 2025.
OpenBank, the 100% Grupo Santander digital bank, continues to extend its product offer by allowing customers to exchange the main cryptocurrencies listed on the market.
From today, the bank will allow customers to buy, sell or have Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Polygon and Cardano with their other investments. And all this without having to transfer money to any other platform, as well as to assess the support of Santander and the guarantees and the protection of investors provided by European markets in the regulation of crypto-active (Mica).
In the coming months, OpenBank will expand its portfolio of available cryptocurrencies and will offer new features such as the conversion between different cryptocurrencies.
Coty de Monteverde, chief of the crypto at Grupo Santander, said: “By incorporating the main cryptocurrencies in our investment platform, we respond to the demand of some of our customers and continue to strengthen a wide range of products and services thanks to a simple and simple technological platform supported by one of the main financial groups in the world.”
The new cryptocurrency trading service is delivered with competitive costs of 1.49% on the sale and purchases of assets (with a minimum of € 1 per operation) and no daycare costs. In a few weeks, these assets will also be available for OpenBank customers in Spain.
This service strengthens the OpenBank offer to investors in Germany thanks to innovative products and services. It is currently providing an automated investment service, Robo Advisor; a portfolio of more than 3,000 shares; 3,000 investment funds of more than 123 asset managers; And more than 2,000 ETF. In recent weeks, he has also launched a broker platform equipped with tools based on artificial intelligence which offer target prices for more than 1,000 European and American shares.
