{"id":670504,"date":"2026-10-13T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/russia-clears-sberbank-for-crypto-trading-ahead-of-december-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:53:41","slug":"russia-clears-sberbank-for-crypto-trading-ahead-of-december-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/russia-clears-sberbank-for-crypto-trading-ahead-of-december-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia clears Sberbank for crypto trading ahead of December launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/10\/01M4TJ29HRXGHBG9K7W07M6RBV\/sbernew2.jpg\" alt=\"Russia clears Sberbank for crypto trading ahead of December launch\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s largest bank, Sberbank, has secured crypto exchange authorization as it prepares to offer Bitcoin, Ether and Tether USDt trading.<\/p>\n<p>Sberbank, Russia\u2019s largest lender, has secured the central bank\u2019s approval to trade cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, ahead of a planned December launch.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Russia\u2019s updated register, dated Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.ru\/registries\/admissionfinmarket\/#a_197560\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lists<\/a> 10 authorized crypto exchange operators and six digital custodians, up from four and five, respectively, a week earlier. The lists include major lenders Sberbank and VTB alongside nonbank companies such as T-Invest Lab and Atomyze.<\/p>\n<p>Sberbank previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sberbank.ru\/ru\/sberpress\/vazhnoe\/article?newsID=b62be9c4-d90f-4a58-8a7f-961ecb411691&amp;blockID=8a5ea25e-318c-4d17-a60d-e806c4b0bc07&amp;regionID=77&amp;lang=ru&amp;type=NEWS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it plans to launch crypto products supporting Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether\u2019s USDt (USDT) on Dec. 1, 2026, through its existing SberBank Online, SberInvestments and SberBusiness platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sberbank-russia-crypto-trading-approval\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s largest bank, Sberbank, has secured crypto exchange authorization as it prepares to offer Bitcoin, Ether and Tether USDt trading. Sberbank, Russia\u2019s largest lender, has secured the central bank\u2019s approval to trade cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, ahead of a planned December launch. The Bank of Russia\u2019s updated register, dated Tuesday, lists 10 authorized crypto exchange operators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-670504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}