Its funny how after releasing their own JPM coin JP Morgan have done a complete u-turn and are now endorsing cryptos (providing you still use a normal bank sevice of course). When JP Morgan slated bitcoin last year there was a sudden price drop. Even though they were caught buying bitcoin on the dip for their clients the facade was allowed to continue. Pretending to rubbish publicly something whilst secretly working on it is the oldest trick in the book and its sad that so many people still take taken in by this game. I suspect that any day China is going to declare its support for crypto and lift its ban even though we all know its working on blockchain projects in the background. It just means we have to wait longer for the price to go up I guess.
More like pragmatism. True money making people will have to sooner or later understand that the genie is out of the bottle, and the time has come for them to revise their business.
From time to time a technology comes that renders whole sectors of industry obsolete, and refusing to see whats in front of them just because their traditional business gave them profits for a century, doesn't mean they woun't be forced to change, they will, and so will the banks, which will shrink and or morph.
Perhaps sooner than later even banks will start thinking about a 100% reserve banking, exactly like the Austrian economists wished.
In such a bank: You would normally have to pay fees to keep your money stored (could be a single fee for each deposit/withdraw, like you see today with exchanges. That is unless you voluntarily lend your money, for a given period of time. During this period your money will be unavailable. Again, a few exchanges already do this.
So i maintain my posture that crypto exchanges and banks will come to fuse together, and they will bridge the transition from fiat to crypto for how many decades humanity may require. Those not doing so will be cast aside by progress, as many older but formerly lucrative business did.
The rest of the financing sector is more or less in the same situation, the world history has changed after Bitcoin.