A look at ZA Bank: the firm’s ties to Chinese online insurer Zhongan Insurance, potential parallels with Silvergate Bank, and what Hong Kong’s crypto openness says about Beijing’s stance on crypto.
The U.S. crypto industry is in turmoil following the high-profile collapse of exchange FTX as well as two banks that serve the sector. Now start-ups may be finding a refuge in an unexpected place: Hong Kong.
The process of transferring money to ZA Bank. Credit: ZA
One beneficiary of the city’s apparent embrace of crypto — which has emerged despite Beijing’s long-held wariness of the industry — is online firm ZA Bank. Last week it received official permission to operate as a se
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