Today the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) released its latest statistics, including details about banking crypto asset activities. The most notable aspects are new details indicating very different activity patterns across regions. While prudential exposures by banks continues to expand, overall activities for the half year to June 2025 was down, partly reflecting the declines in the crypto markets during the February to May period. However, there are major caveats around the figures. The banks reporting from one period to the next is inconsistent. For the six months to June 2025, the number of European reporting banks dropped from 13 to eight, which might explain an…