First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
In what context is this to the OP?
Most likely because in the beginning, the very idea of a major bank caring enough to track Bitcoin transactions would have been laughed off this forum back in the early days. Now, we have so much interest (and duplication of effort through various 'blockchain' efforts), that it seems every major financial institution has their finger in the Bitcoin pie.
The next phase will be after they realize they actually NEED exo-hashing rates for security, instead of their poorly-secured private hashing networks. I think that particular bell will ring a year or so after they've finished wasting a lot of money on making their own mining networks.
