Crypto users in Australia are still faced with banking barriers when interacting with exchanges and other crypto businesses, according to a recent survey, while industry executives have said clearer policies from the government can be silver bullets that fix the problem.
A Binance survey of 1,900 Australians released on Thursday Found 58% of respondents would like to easily access deposit funds in an exchange without limit, while 22% changed banks to do Buying crypto is easier.
Talking to Cointelegraph, Matt Poblocki, the general manager of the Crypto Exchange’s Australian and New Zealand operation, said the seamless access to financial services directly affects participation, confidence, and market trust, which introduces obstacles that can slow down and limit growth.
“Lack of parallel access to not only busy with users but risk driving coastal activity in fewer regulated areas -something that benefits consumers or the wider financial system.”
Ongoing barriers from banks have come despite years of regulatory development for crypto in Australia. Crypto exchanges are brought Under anti-money laundering Laws In 2018, which requires registration in Australia by the Intelligence Agency of Australia, Austrac.
Years later, the country First funds exchangedholding a bitcoin (Btc) directly, launched in June 2024, Following an ETF holding an ether (Eth) in October 2024.
On Tuesday, Crypto exchanged Coinbase and OKX Introduced services for self-managed superannuation funds In Australia, which provides new ways for crypto to create those who enter the country’s retirement system.
Crypto businesses, users regularly run on banking barriers
Okx Australia CEO Kate Cooper Cointelegraph said that in his experience – first in traditional finances at Major Australian Bank Nab and now as the boss of a crypto exchange – institutions are still denying banking services in crypto businesses and preventing transfers to crypto exchanges.
Commonwealth Bank, one of Australia’s four largest banks, announced A limit of Australia’s 10,000 dollars ($ 6,527) per month for customers who send funds to crypto exchanges.
“We are regular phone calls from customers. ‘So my bank will not allow me. What bank do you know that will allow me to do this? How do I do it? What are my choices?'” Cooper said.
“I didn’t know it was affecting the adoption. And the reason we have significant rates of adoption in Australia, more than 30% mean Australians are participating, but I think strife brings a lot of disappointment to customers.”
Australia’s anti-money laundering regulator, the Australian transaction reports and analysis center (Austrac), released Last update the guide in March, saying that banks were not ordered to have a blanket of crypto ban.
Some exchange clients and employees faced Deban
Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s general manager for Australia, told Cointelegraph that the exchange has also seen countless clients and employees who have lost access to their accounts for contact with the crypto ecosystem.
Debanking involves a bank closing account and refusing access to services for individuals and organizations who are lying as a possible risk, along with one of the well -known examples of skill taking place in the United States During the Operation Chokepoint.
Miller said crypto businesses experience similar road barriers, which “creates concentration risks – because local exchanges and startups often have a limited range of banks willing to work with them.”
“This is a strong reminder of why crypto exists in the first place: if an intermediary can unilaterally cut you off from the basic financial services for trying to develop financial independence, then the financial system itself is fundamental.”
Poblocki said Binance was also running road barriers to Australia. Anyone who uses the exchange can buy and sell a crypto using credit or debit cards, but will not deposit or revoke the Australian dollar by moving to the bank, which he said “reflects a broader industry challenge rather than an isolated issue.”
He added that the exchange continues to maintain alternatives on-ramp and off-ramp, while continuing to work towards a more sustainable solution.
Cooper also saw the opportunities of Deban, which he said “remains a massive issue in Australia for the crypto sector,” along with banks who refused banking services to businesses operating in the sector.
The law is a solution for banking blocks
Cooper said the most important factor that could end crypto roadblocks would be fit-for-purpose law. He teaches to draft a law that can be released at the end of the month.
“And what it does will help to sort the wheat from the outskirts, the good actors from the bad actors, and it will give the banks a greater indication of who runs within the regulated financial service industry.”
Australia’s government, under the ruling center of the left labor party, proposed a new crypto framework that controls the exchanges and dealing with Deban early in the federal election earlier this year.
Miller said clear law and regulatory guidance is important to deal with Deban, but also an end to restrictions on the crypto industry and its participants, which some have begun, but has not been accepted worldwide.
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“What is needed is a more annoying approach to the right diligence – one that is distinguished between evil actors and legitimate construction of businesses that are responsible,” he said.
Meanwhile, Poblocki also said the law was necessary, as well as “collaboration between government, banks, and industries to provide clarity of regulation.”
“The clear guide to the regulation, in conjunction with the efforts of working with stakeholders, is the best way to solve Deban.”
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