Cryptobank Anchorage Digital dismisses every fifth employee – Bits Media

Anchorage Digital announced the cryptocurrency bank, What will fire 75 employees, or about 20% its full -time labor. The company claims, that the decision was influenced by the uncertainty of regulation in the US financial system.

Anchorage Digital was the first American cryptocurrency company, received the status of a national trust bank from the control of a monetary circulation controller (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) in January 2021 of the year.

The Bank’s team calls the current dismissal “strategic perestroika, To better concentrate resources ".

“Macroeconomic, Market and normative dynamics creates obstacles to our business and the entire crypto industry ", - said at the bank.

It is still unknown, Dismissions are taking place in Anchorage due to the banking crisis in the United States or prolonged cryptosim. March 2023 the year has become a difficult month for bankers, working with crypto industry. Silvergate has already been announced about the termination of operations, Signature и Silicon Valley.

Earlier, Bloomberg, citing its own sources, reported, That even before the closure of Signature Bank, American prosecutors investigated its interaction with clients from the crypto industry.