International and Norwegian banks are in the process of moving from thinking box to implementation. Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, CEO of K33, predicts that during 2025 we will see the first Norwegian banks that will offer crypto trading, and then the others will quickly follow suit.
After recently seeing a lot of news in the borderland between crypto and classical finance, we at Kaupr have invited Torbjørn Bull Jenssen in K33 to a review of current and crypto-related topics that may have an impact on the future of finance, point by point. This is the video interview you should watch to update you on crypto trading, payments and savings. (The video interview is in Norwegian).
“The most important thing that is happening now is that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have become mainstream. And it's gone from being something that most financial institutions think of as risky to do, at least reputationally, to being something they see as risky NOT to do,” Bull Jenssen says in the interview. “That's exactly the shift we're seeing now”.
Bull Jenssen also says that K33 is in the process of onboarding the first Norwegian savings bank as a customer in K33, and that another Norwegian bank is in the process of setting up Bitcoin as part of a fund structure.
We recommend that you watch the entire interview in context, but have also prepared topics for you that you might be particularly interested in.
00:19 Introduction and welcome
00:45 The main changes
01:03 Institutional investors arrive
01:42 Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin have gone mainstream
02:02 Banks in Norway are coming
04:33 Change in the narrative and money to be made
06:18 We face a tipping point
08:35 What's the big turning point?
09:56 Meaning of MiCA?
10:56 What's going on in the US with Trump?
13:03 Are we now seeing a three-split in crypto?
14:02 Bitcoin is on its own journey
14:26 Memecoins are not cryptocurrency
15:23 DeFi and tokenization
17:30 Bitcoin and smart contracts?
18:55 Ethereum and Solana
19:32 Payments using crypto
20:51 Increased risk of a fragmented world
21:48 Norges Bank should buy Bitcoin
27:07 Crypto trading in the banking apps?
30:05 Are banks competitive?
32:58 Bitcoin, trading and payments
36:37 Reporting to the Tax Administration
39:41 The dream of freedom?
42:00 Banks with FOMO?
Also stay tuned to the online newspaper Kaupr.io and the Equity newsletter to stay up to date on the further evolution of the relationship between crypto and classical finance.
International and Norwegian banks are in the process of moving from thinking box to implementation. Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, CEO of K33, predicts that during 2025 we will see the first Norwegian banks that will offer crypto trading, and then the others will quickly follow suit.
After recently seeing a lot of news in the borderland between crypto and classical finance, we at Kaupr have invited Torbjørn Bull Jenssen in K33 to a review of current and crypto-related topics that may have an impact on the future of finance, point by point. This is the video interview you should watch to update you on crypto trading, payments and savings. (The video interview is in Norwegian).
“The most important thing that is happening now is that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have become mainstream. And it's gone from being something that most financial institutions think of as risky to do, at least reputationally, to being something they see as risky NOT to do,” Bull Jenssen says in the interview. “That's exactly the shift we're seeing now”.
Bull Jenssen also says that K33 is in the process of onboarding the first Norwegian savings bank as a customer in K33, and that another Norwegian bank is in the process of setting up Bitcoin as part of a fund structure.
We recommend that you watch the entire interview in context, but have also prepared topics for you that you might be particularly interested in.
00:19 Introduction and welcome
00:45 The main changes
01:03 Institutional investors arrive
01:42 Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin have gone mainstream
02:02 Banks in Norway are coming
04:33 Change in the narrative and money to be made
06:18 We face a tipping point
08:35 What's the big turning point?
09:56 Meaning of MiCA?
10:56 What's going on in the US with Trump?
13:03 Are we now seeing a three-split in crypto?
14:02 Bitcoin is on its own journey
14:26 Memecoins are not cryptocurrency
15:23 DeFi and tokenization
17:30 Bitcoin and smart contracts?
18:55 Ethereum and Solana
19:32 Payments using crypto
20:51 Increased risk of a fragmented world
21:48 Norges Bank should buy Bitcoin
27:07 Crypto trading in the banking apps?
30:05 Are banks competitive?
32:58 Bitcoin, trading and payments
36:37 Reporting to the Tax Administration
39:41 The dream of freedom?
42:00 Banks with FOMO?
Also stay tuned to the online newspaper Kaupr.io and the Equity newsletter to stay up to date on the further evolution of the relationship between crypto and classical finance.
