In terms of the US: many banks are hostile to bitcoin due to operation Choke Point.
I would not be surprised if other countries have been pressured to institute similar programs.
care to elaborate on Choke Point? Is that a real thing? Who's running it?
Here is an article on it
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/24/operation-choke-point/It is run by the DOJ (I believe). It basically is as attempt by the government to make banks not offer financial products/services (checking account, credit card processing, payment/ACH processing) to businesses that are legal but have "questionable" morals. Examples of businesses would be ones related to legal pot, porn, payday lenders, and bitcoin.
I use questionable in quotes because it is questionable by the government's own standards, and there is no accountability via congress. Congress has not passed any laws that make any of the types of businesses illegal.