Partners Banka has reportedly become the first bank in the Czech Republic to let customers buy and sell bitcoin in its own mobile banking app, after partnering with the domestic crypto firm Anycoin to handle trades and custody.
The service was announced in Prague on 5 August 2026 and was scheduled to go live the following Monday, 10 August.
Account holders can open a crypto account in the Partners app in a few minutes, starting with as little as 500 Czech crowns.
They do not need a separate exchange registration, another app, or the recovery phrases and wallet keys that usually come with holding bitcoin themselves.
A customer chooses an amount in crowns, confirms the order, and the money is taken from an ordinary bank account.
The bitcoin position, its current value, and the record of purchases and sales then sit alongside the rest of the customer’s finances in the same screen. Opening and keeping the crypto account carry no charge.
A fee applies only when bitcoin is bought or sold, and the bank says the exact cost is shown before the order is confirmed.
Each trade is capped at a minimum of 500 crowns and a maximum of 1 million crowns.
The bank frames the product as a way for people to try a small position and watch how it moves, rather than as a core savings product. Execution and safekeeping sit with Anycoin, not with the bank.
Anycoin, described by the partners as the largest Czech crypto exchange, received permission from the Czech National Bank to provide crypto-asset services under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA).
That regime took effect in July 2026 and set common rules across the bloc for firms that deal in crypto-assets.
Anycoin is among the first Czech companies to hold such a license, and the bank says it is the first Czech crypto firm to embed live trading directly into a commercial bank’s systems.
Customers therefore stay inside the banking app instead of moving money to a foreign venue or managing a personal wallet.
Petr Borkovec, chief executive of Partners Banka and co-founder of the Partners financial group, said public interest in bitcoin is already broad, but the usual route to buying it remains needlessly awkward for many people.
The bank’s aim, he said, is to offer the trade in an app customers already use, while stating plainly that bitcoin is a risky asset and should be only a supplement to a diversified portfolio, at most about 5 percent of it, not its foundation.
Marek Kyrsch, director of Anycoin, called the build a demanding mix of technology and regulatory constraints, and said cooperation with banks had long been expected, so the firm had prepared for it.
He described the launch as a step toward treating digital assets as an ordinary part of modern financial services.
The announcement fits a wider Partners Banka strategy of gathering a customer’s financial life in one place.
An Ipsos survey prepared for the bank found that 47 percent of Czechs have some connection to bitcoin: they hold it, held it before, are considering a purchase, or know someone who owns it.
About 17 percent have invested personally, and another 11 percent are potential new buyers. Fear of risk and limited knowledge were the main barriers, not simple access.
Sixteen percent of people who have not invested said they missed the option of buying through a bank.
Borkovec argued that an app cannot remove price swings, but it can strip away technical hurdles and make purchase size and value tracking easier.
The bank also warns that bitcoin can rise or fall sharply in a short time.
It advises customers to use only money they can afford to lose, start small, spread purchases over time, and avoid trying to time the market. Decisions, it says, should follow a longer-term plan, the household’s overall finances, and a clear willingness to accept risk.