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Anchorage Digital Acquires Routable to Expand Corporate Payment Services

(1 hour ago) · 1 source · Summarized by CryptoBipto

Anchorage Digital, a federally chartered crypto bank, has acquired Routable, a company that provides corporate payment infrastructure. The acquisition is intended to add traditional corporate payment capabilities to Anchorage Digital's existing crypto banking services.

WHY IT MATTERS

Think of Anchorage Digital as a bank that was built specifically for cryptocurrency but now wants to also handle the kinds of payments that regular businesses make every day, like paying suppliers or contractors. Routable is a company that helps businesses automate those everyday payments. By buying Routable, Anchorage is essentially adding a traditional payment system on top of its crypto services. This matters because it shows that some crypto companies are trying to become full-service financial institutions rather than just handling digital currencies. For newcomers to crypto, this illustrates how the line between traditional finance and crypto finance is gradually blurring.

Anchorage Digital is one of the few crypto-focused companies to hold a federal bank charter in the United States, granted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in 2021.

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