Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual launches a new platform for crypto investors.

Leading Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual has launched a new platform for cryptocurrency investors.

The bank’s Mynt platform currently allows users to purchase Bitcoin and Ether, with BTG Pactual expressing its intention to launch support for additional crypto assets in the future.

BTG Pactual CEO, Roberto Sallouti, described Mynt’s creation as being in response to “demand from our customers who wish to trade crypto.”

Sallouti added that Mynt plans to host education content designed to inform new users about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, stating: “As a new asset class, we will also have content to educate and inform our customers about these assets and the technology.”

According to local news outlet The Rio Times, Mynt’s launch makes BTC Pactual the first major Brazilian financial institution to allow its customers to “participate directly” in the crypto-asset markets.

Porthilo asserted that the bank’s status as being regulated by both the Brazilian Securities Commission and the local central bank will lend credibility to the country’s burgeoning crypto sector.

“With the support of BTG Pactual, Mynt has fundamental differentials in security and credibility [ — ] characteristics that are fundamental in a new category of investments with which most people [are] not yet used to,” he added.

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