By Wamda Staff Writer / Wamda - Image Credit: Bitoasis
As adoption of digital assets and blockchain technology is on the rise worldwide, we at BitOasis are seeing an exponential increase in demand for our services in the GCC region. We welcome this growth but we also acknowledge that this might create bottlenecks which our new clients may temporarily experience from time to time. We would like to assure our longstanding clients and partners that the team at BitOasis is working tirelessly at resolving these issues.
One of our top priorities is to ensure we operate transparently and communicate openly with all of our customers. As such we would like to respond to a Gulf News article published on Thursday January 10, under the title ‘Bitcoin investors angry after BitOasis disables transfers’.
It is our understanding that EmiratesNBD’s recent policy decision to halt transfers for customers dealing with blockchain-based trading platforms applies not only to BitOasis but to similar companies in the blockchain space both locally and internationally. It is unfortunate to see one of the UAE’s major financial institutions taking such a position on products built using this innovative and much in demand technology. We continue to actively engage and build strong relationships with other leading financial institutions as well as regulators in the UAE with the aim of fostering an environment more conducive to blockchain technology adoption.
BitOasis does not, at present, nor ever has, maintained a banking relationship with either of Emirates NBD or Noor Bank. We continue to have excellent relationships with our local banking partners since the launch of our platform in 2015. We currently do not have any issues with accepting or sending customer transfers to Noor Bank or any other UAE or GCC based banks as the article suggests. We are also currently engaging with other banks mentioned in the article to streamline and remove any friction for our customers banking there.
Source: wamda.com