Until recently, there was a noticeable lack of interest in bitcoin exchange and the blockchain among the financial
institutions of Asia. In fact, banks there were more likely to be issuing warnings about digital currencies than
getting involved in any related activity.
It was the fall of Mt Gox in Japan and the Chinese central bank's crackdown on bitcoin exchanges, events that both
took place in 2014, that resulted in early barriers among financial institutions in those nations.
However, the recent upsurge in the popularity of blockchain technology in the global finance sector seems to have
at least somewhat laid those concerns to rest. Now, the region's banking sector is showing the same growing
enthusiasm for the tech's disruptive potential in banking that can be seen in Europe and North America.
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