They are fucking stupid or what? Bank's does not Hold/Buy or sell bitcoins, people do.
And bank's can't stop you to spend your money even if it's bitcoin or some other virtual currency.
Banks invest most of their customer's money in other assets other than fiat(foreign currencies, stocks, gold, stuff like that), its called fractionary reserve. They could invest in bitcoin too.
".......Until new rules in place".
This is actually bullish.
+ very very bullish !
1. "keep away from bitcoin!"
2. (secretly buy shit load of bitcoins yourself)
3. "now buy bitcoin!"
4.
5. profit
1 - "keep away from bitcoin!"
2 - Price drops by less than $20
3 - You can only facepalm yourself by your failure