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transaction processing, ensuring your funds settle sooner.
The first quarter: firing on all cylinders
Straight-through processing for trading
real-time payments, 24/7. Access to NPP means faster payments, streamlining transactions and improving efficiency. …and sharper pricing on trading pairs We’re also able to offer improved pricing for AUD pairs. Whether you’re trading AUD with fiat or crypto pairs, our trading team can offer market leading pricing. Within our standard trading product is access to our trading desk as well as access to the trading console for self-serve. Get in touch if you want to know more.
Continuing the theme of automation, we’ve also invested in automating trading withdrawals. Trading clients can now initiate withdrawals directly from the BCB Markets trading user interface, providing straight-through processing and faster settlement.
Extended processing times for USD payments
Giving your business access to a key market like the US has and continues to be a priority for us. Following a soft launch in December, our most recent enhancement to our USD payments account has increased the payment processing times for domestic and international payments to 2130 (UK), previously 1700 (UK). This change better aligns to US banking hours,
Mary Pennington, Head of Product, BCB Group
Two-factor-authentication at your fingertips
Security is a vital feature of BCB products, and we wanted to put clients in control. Client administrators can now reset two- factor-authentication (2FA) for members of their team in our client console. EUR International gets a makeover International payments via our EUR payments account have been given an upgrade, meaning transfers can be made in your own name, payment cut-off times have been extended to 1600 (UK), and we are delivering faster settlement and quicker
The first quarter of 2025 has been a big start to the year for the team at BCB, kicking off with a significant launch down under. Faster Aussie Dollars Following the release of our Australian dollar (AUD) payments account in 2024, clients with an AUD account can now also make payments and receive deposits through NPP (New Payments Platform), Australia’s national fast payments infrastructure that enables
opening up a larger operating window in a key global market.
It’s been a busy start to 2025, but at BCB we believe in continuous improvement and refinement to our services. Rest assured we will be keeping up the pace throughout the year.
“If it’s April, this must be Paris!”
NYC first for Bitcoin Investor Week followed by the Digital Assets Summit (DAS) (see our coverage of DAS on pages 4-5). Now here we are in Paris for Blockchain Week and we are out in force in the French capital. Next up, Token 2049 in Dubai, then Consensus Toronto, Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, SIBOS in Frankfurt and more... But the conference round is just part of our activities in 2025. Amid the events, I am preparing for a raft of announcements on our current and soon-to-be-launched payment products and services across crypto and fiat currencies, and partner case studies to showcase the challenges we solve for our clients. Details of all these events and activities will be available on our website, which we recently relaunched. The refreshed site provides a shop window to our solutions, emphasising our ‘regulation-first’ approach. We believe this will be a key point of difference for us in the year of MiCA
and other regulatory developments. Another key theme for 2025 will be the growing interconnection between groups both within our industry and the wider world of finance. In this developing environment, sharing ideas and insights from technology to regulation is more important than ever, which is one reason we have launched BLINC, the magazine you are holding in your hands right now. Naturally, BLINC is an opportunity for BCB to highlight news about our business and attract new partners. But it is also about discussion and analysis; a chance for our experts – from finance to technology to compliance – to share their understanding and fuel debate across our industry and beyond. We are in a fast-moving sector and competition is fierce. However, along with our partners, clients and other firms in the ecosystem, we are forging a new, global business and finance community. As a marketing professional, I don’t think there is much else that could be more challenging and exciting.
Sam Shrager Chief Marketing Officer, BCB Group
Last year was a whirlwind for BCB Group and 2025 is gearing up to be even busier. Our agenda for the next 12 months is already packed with product launches, a pipeline of major deals and partnerships and, of course, a global tour of the top digital assets, payments and banking conferences. Hong Kong, London, followed by New York were our first ports of call.
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