Five Star Bank and UNIFY Financial Credit Union will offer Bitcoin (BTC) services to their customers in partnership with NYDIG and Q2 Holding.
The partnership, first announced in June, is starting to bear fruit.
Digital banking firm Q2 Holdings said in a statement that Five Star Bank and UNIFY Financial Credit Union will be the first to offer their clients the ability to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin through NYDIG, an institutional Bitcoin broker.
This partnership will allow banking clients to buy and sell Bitcoin alongside their existing bank accounts without the need to use crypto asset trading platforms.
Five Star Bank has approximately 50 branches in Western New York.
NYDIG has partnered with digital banking services firm NCR to offer crypto asset purchases to 650 banks, according to a report in June.