They've come to realize it now because there are huge companies that are coming in and some governments that are in favor of it but the counterpart is to regulate transactions that happens inside their country.
They can't deny the fact that big financial institutions and big companies are continuously buying large chunks of bitcoin or integrating crypto in their system. And I believe, they feel that they are being left out if they will not join the pack. They are now seeing that even with their advice to be careful in dealing with crypto, people are continuously patronizing it. As an example given above by
suzanne, if more and more people will discover this advantage of bitcoin in cross border payments, a lot of people will use this method and traditional payment methods like WU will slowly lose their clients.
I don't think that they've felt left out.
What we might not know is that they're already in and just stated what they want to say but have been researching and studying bitcoin for a long time.
It just so happen that there were institutions that are earlier than them that appreciated and adopted it.