Which banks offer exchange transfers and a card?

This pair covers banks that let you fund an exchange and also put a card in your hand. Sygnum, AMINA Bank and Swissquote lead at 15 of 16 with Viseca credit cards or a Swissquote debit Mastercard that settles by selling Bitcoin, Ethereum or XRP, while Wirex, Xapo Bank and Revolut cover the retail side with cards that spend from crypto or pay cashback in Bitcoin. The UAE apps (Wio Bank, ruya, RAKBank, Liv) and the EU apps (bunq, Rebind) pass with a partial on transfers because they publish no exchange policy, and Singapore Gulf Bank, Bank Frick and LHV score partial on the card, since SGB's pages list no card, Bank Frick's Debit Mastercard appears only in its fee schedule, and LHV's cards cannot spend the crypto bought at the bank. Bitcoin Suisse, Anchorage Digital, BCB Group, SG-FORGE, ClearBank and Zand Bank fail the card test because they issue no card of any kind, PostFinance, Santander Openbank and the Swiss cantonal banks issue ordinary debit cards and still fail it, as do BBVA, Raiffeisen NÖ-Wien and Deutsche Bank, which say outright that nothing they issue spends crypto, and N26, Commerzbank, Custodia Bank and Mercury fail on transfers, Mercury because buying or selling crypto through the account can close it.

The banks that pass

BankScoreTypeHealthP2PVerdict
Sygnum15/16Crypto-nativeSolidnoneYes, but only for qualified investors, companies and institutions. Sygnum does not take retail clients.
AMINA Bank15/16Crypto-nativeSolidnoneYes, but only for professional clients and companies. Individuals need CHF 500,000 in assets plus finance experience, or CHF 2 million.
Swissquote15/16NeobankSolidStrictYes, with fenced on-chain flows: crypto comes in only from six named exchanges or your own wallet, and never goes out to an exchange.
Xapo Bank14/16Crypto-nativeSolidUnknownYes. Bitcoin and stablecoins are the core product, though the bank publishes no policy on transfers to exchanges.
Wirex14/16NeobankUnknownStrictYes. Crypto moves freely in and out, but the card cannot buy crypto elsewhere and the old app lost its crypto features in the EEA on 30 June 2026.
Bank Frick13/16Crypto-nativeSolidnoneYes for crypto businesses, intermediaries and wealthy private clients. No walk-in retail.
Revolut13/16NeobankWatchMixedYes for individuals, with the deepest crypto stack of any app-bank. No for crypto businesses.
Bunq12/16NeobankWatchMixedYes for retail through the Kraken-powered bunq Crypto tab, and for licensed CASPs on a fiat-only business account. Coins cannot leave the app.
Rebind11/16NeobankWatchUnknownYes for euro transfers through a personal Monerium IBAN, but Rebind is an app, not a bank, and it never names exchanges.
LHV9/16Business bankingSolidRelaxedYes. Crypto trading is built into the Estonian app, and the UK arm banks Coinbase and Bitstamp, but coins cannot leave the bank.
PostFinance9/16TraditionalSolidMixedYes. PostFinance sells, holds and stakes crypto in its own app, but only for Swiss residents and with no way to move coins to your own wallet.
BBVA9/16TraditionalSolidMixedYes. BBVA sells and holds bitcoin and ether inside its own app in Spain, Switzerland and Türkiye, but the Spanish service is a closed loop and moving coins out costs 4%.
Cross River Bank8/16Business bankingWatchnoneYes for crypto businesses and fintech partners, which is who the bank is built for. Individuals can bank here too, but get no crypto features.
RAKBank8/16TraditionalSolidnoneYes. Crypto trading is built into the app, but it is a closed loop run by Bitpanda, and exchange transfer rules are not published.
Luzerner Kantonalbank7/16TraditionalSolidnoneYes. Crypto trading, custody and wallet transfers are built into the bank's own e-banking, for Swiss residents.
Santander · Openbank7/16TraditionalSolidStrictYes for buying crypto inside the bank, with a closed loop that is slow and costly to leave, and exchange transfers that vary by country.
Liv · Emirates NBD7/16NeobankSolidnoneYes for buying and holding crypto inside the app. Coins stay with the custodian, and there is no published route to an external wallet.
Zürcher Kantonalbank6/16TraditionalSolidnoneYes for buying and holding crypto inside the bank, but nothing moves in or out.
Wio Bank6/16NeobankSolidnoneYes for buying and selling crypto inside the app. No published policy on transfers to outside exchanges.
ruya6/16NeobankUnknownnoneYes for buying and selling Bitcoin inside the app, but it is a closed loop with no withdrawals to your own wallet.

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Bank by bank

Sygnum 15 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: yes
Allowed: Institutional off-exchange custody (Sygnum Protect) for trading on Binance, Deribit and Bybit without pre-funding the exchange
Watch out: Paying merchants directly in crypto with the card. The Viseca-issued card settles in fiat, and crypto is converted first
AMINA Bank 15 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: yes
Allowed: Crypto transfers into AMINA from your own account at a supported exchange or custodian, including Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, ByBit, Deribit and Revolut, once you prove the account is yours
Watch out: No card on the free Silver package. Cards come with Gold (CHF 480 a year) or Platinum (CHF 1,000 a month)
Swissquote 15 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: yes
Allowed: Crypto deposits from six whitelisted exchanges: Bitpanda, Bitstamp, Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken and Revolut, after you upload screenshots of the transaction
Watch out: Crypto withdrawals to any cryptocurrency exchange. Swissquote says attempts could result in loss of the funds
Xapo Bank 14 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: yes
Allowed: Accounts for businesses, trusts and qualifying financial institutions, including exchanges and digital asset treasuries
Watch out: Institutional accounts cannot pay suppliers or run payroll; every transfer must match the entity's own name
Wirex 14 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: yes
Allowed: Crypto deposits from any external wallet or exchange address on a network Wirex supports
Watch out: The EEA card cannot be used for crypto trading outside Wirex, so buying on another exchange with the card is blocked
Bank Frick 13 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: partial
Allowed: USDC held in custody and exchanged for fiat under the bank's fiat/crypto exchange service
Revolut 13 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: Crypto deposits from major exchanges including Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Bitstamp and eToro
Watch out: Fiat transfers to some cryptocurrency exchanges: Revolut lists 'some cryptocurrency exchanges' among unsupported recipients on its declined-transfer help page
Bunq 12 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: Buy, sell and swap more than 300 coins inside the bunq app from EUR 1, with Kraken handling trading and custody
Watch out: Under the crypto business terms bunq rejects unlicensed fiat-crypto exchanges, mining and mining pools, ICOs and token issuance, and mixers or tumblers
Rebind 11 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: A euro IBAN in your own name, issued through Monerium, that accepts SEPA and SEPA Instant transfers from any bank account
Watch out: No physical card is documented on Rebind's own pages
LHV 9 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: partial
Allowed: Euro transfers in to fund a purchase and euro withdrawals after a sale, as ordinary bank payments
Watch out: Transferring crypto from LHV to an external wallet or exchange, and sending crypto into LHV. You must sell inside the bank to move value out
PostFinance 9 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: partial
Allowed: A free PostFinance Card (Debit Mastercard) comes with the private account, and credit cards are available
Watch out: No published policy on fiat transfers to or from crypto exchanges. A third-party guide reports CHF transfers to regulated exchanges are not blocked
BBVA 9 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: partial
Allowed: USDC custody, exchange and near real-time conversion into euros or dollars at BBVA Switzerland (announced September 2024)
Watch out: Spanish purchases are capped at 20,000 euros a year (50,000 on request) and the SEPA Instant ceiling is low, around 1,000 euros per transfer
Cross River Bank 8 of 16 · exchange transfers: yes · card: partial
Allowed: Named crypto clients on the bank's own site: Circle, Coinbase, Fireblocks, Gemini, Transak
RAKBank 8 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: Free Titanium Debit Mastercard with the standard current account
Watch out: No published policy on sending dirhams to third-party exchanges such as Binance or Coinbase
Luzerner Kantonalbank 7 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: partial
Allowed: Transfer supported coins in from an external wallet you control, free of charge, minimum CHF 5,000 per coin
Watch out: No published policy on bank transfers to or from external crypto exchanges
Santander · Openbank 7 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: partial
Allowed: Receiving fiat from an exchange into a Santander UK account, which the bank says it does not restrict
Watch out: Santander UK caps payments to crypto exchanges at 1,000 pounds per transaction and 3,000 pounds per rolling 30 days, and has blocked payments to Binance since 2021
Liv · Emirates NBD 7 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: Inward transfers to the account are free, so fiat coming back from a licensed exchange has no bank-side fee
Watch out: Emirates NBD warned in 2018 that some Bitcoin-related transfers may be rejected by its own screening or by correspondent banks
Zürcher Kantonalbank 6 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: partial
Watch out: No transfers of crypto to or from the bank: you cannot deposit coins from an external wallet or withdraw to one
Wio Bank 6 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: Inward and outward local and SWIFT transfers on AED, USD, EUR and GBP accounts, with daily limits of AED 300,000 (Standard) or AED 500,000 (Plus and Salary Plus)
Watch out: No published statement on sending fiat to, or receiving it from, Binance, Bybit, OKX, Kraken or other exchanges. The Key Fact Statement says Wio can restrict the account if use breaches its compliance policy
ruya 6 of 16 · exchange transfers: partial · card: yes
Allowed: Free Mastercard debit card that works abroad, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay
Watch out: No published policy on fiat transfers to or from crypto exchanges. Card use is limited to transactions legal in the UAE and compliant with Shari'ah

Questions people ask

Which bank card can pay for things straight out of my crypto balance while I still send money to exchanges?

Swissquote's debit Mastercard can settle a purchase by selling Bitcoin, Ethereum or XRP from your holdings, and the bank takes crypto in from six named exchanges. Revolut's crypto card, free as a virtual card, spends directly from a chosen crypto balance and works with Apple Pay and Google Pay, though Revolut blocks transfers to some exchanges. Sygnum's Visa and Mastercard credit cards settle from crypto or fiat holdings, but the crypto is converted first, so you are not paying the merchant in crypto. Xapo Bank's card spends USD with up to 1% cashback in Bitcoin, and Wirex pays cashback in USD on Wirex One.

Do the UAE apps on this list let me send dirhams to Binance or Bybit?

None of the four publishes a clear yes. Wio Bank, ruya and RAKBank have no published policy on fiat transfers to third-party exchanges, and Wio's Key Fact Statement says the account can be restricted if use breaches its compliance policy. Liv is the closest to a yes: its parent Emirates NBD has said since 2018 that it does not restrict transfers to blockchain trading platforms as a class, and third-party guides report AED transfers to VARA and FSRA licensed exchanges going through. All four score partial on the transfer test for that reason.

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