Article (more details ) in English:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/nordea-bans-employees-from-trading-bitcoin-spokeswoman-saysNordea will impose its ban from Feb. 28, after its board agreed to take a stand due to the “unregulated nature” of the market, spokeswoman Afroditi Kellberg said by phone on Monday. The bank had about 31,500 employees at the end of the third quarter.
Nordea said its policy “includes transitional provisions for staff with existing holdings and allows for certain exceptions.” Employees who already own Bitcoin are “permitted to keep existing holdings.”
Nordea said its treatment of Bitcoin with regard to clients isn’t a policy as such, “but it’s important to emphasize that it is not something we recommend our customers to invest in,” the bank said in an email. “Just like every other bank trading platforms, Nordea Investor provides access to trade all securities listed on, for example, Nasdaq.” In practice, this means that Nordea’s “self-services customers can purchase cryptocurrency-related products through the platform, but it is important to emphasize that it is not something we recommend.”
I think here is a bit of misunderstanding here.
Since they do offer access for clients in trading crypto they have banned the staff and their traders to use the same channels.So the ban might be more of an internal one, the staff could do whatever they want in their private life and outside the bank. .... or at least I hope so...
Either way, this is f*** up
Interesting, I just trying to find the reason behind the regulation.
1. They're trying to protect their employees from the heavy losses that possibly happens when someone is trading crypto.
2. They're trying to stop crypto trading internally, because if the employees can't trade, they won't recommend it to customers, so they're protecting their customers
I just don't get the point, what is the exact activity they're trying to ban, how the stuff at the banks can trade crypto. In my opinion, they're banning the stuff from buying derivatives in connection with crypto.
I don't think that the staff is using the crypto exchanges at work on the bank's PCs while they're doing their daily job, so I think they just trying to stop staff to buy that derivatives. Anyway, staff can trade on smartphones as well, if they really want to, so it's a bit pointless to ban trading on crypto exchanges.
Another point if banks are contacting exchanges if the employees are registered or not, and if they're verified or not, but I just can't imagine this can happen yet...