{"id":521257,"date":"2026-02-27T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521257"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:07:54","slug":"belarusian-national-bank-chief-says-crypto-bank-applications-to-be-processed-by-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-national-bank-chief-says-crypto-bank-applications-to-be-processed-by-summer","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian National Bank Chief Says Crypto Bank Applications to Be Processed by Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Bank will process applications from investors in crypto banks by the summer, the regulator\u2019s head <b>Roman Halouchanka<\/b> said at the National Assembly. According to him, major financial institutions have shown interest in the decree on crypto banks.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI would note that a number of major financial structures \u2014 both domestic and foreign \u2014 are already showing interest in this decree, which is quite breakthrough even by international standards. The first applications from investors and market participants will be processed by the summer of this year,\u201d<\/i> Halouchanka said.<\/p>\n<p>The decree is due to enter into force in the middle of the year. The National Bank chief also outlined the advantages of the new type of financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cFirst, a single balance sheet \u2014 companies will not need to split between a bank account and an exchange account. Second, reduced risks of account blocking, since crypto banks will be supervised by the National Bank and transactions in them will become transparent to supervisory authorities. Third, the range of opportunities for individuals will expand \u2014 loans secured by cryptocurrency, crypto deposits, crypto cards enabling payment for goods and services, and even receiving salaries in cryptocurrency,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank will process applications from investors in crypto banks by the summer, the regulator\u2019s head Roman Halouchanka said at the National Assembly. According to him, major financial institutions have shown interest in the decree on crypto banks. \u201cI would note that a number of major financial structures \u2014 both domestic and foreign \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a15ef1e6e61.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian National Bank Chief Says Crypto Bank Applications to Be Processed by Summer"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}