UK Banks Still Blocking Bitcoin, Policy Group Tells Parliament

The striking part is not that banks restrict crypto, but that a policy group is quantifying it for Parliament, turning an anecdotal friction into a formal access argument. This matters most for UK retail users and exchanges, whose on-ramp depends on banks they cannot choose around. The open question is whether lawmakers treat blocking as a consumer-protection matter or a competitive one; the industry's push for regulatory clarity is really a push to shift that judgement from bank risk desks to regulators.