Brazil investment bank to offer Bitcoin and Ethereum

Brazil’s biggest investment bank, BTG Pactual is launching direct bitcoin and ethereum buying and selling through a new platform called Mynt.

“We will make available bitcoin and ethereum trading to meet the demand from our customers who wish to invest in cryptos,” Roberto Sallouti, the CEO of BTG Pactual, said before adding:

“As a new asset class, we will also have content to educate and inform our customers about these assets and the technology.

For those who want to invest in these assets, we always recommend that it be a small portion of your portfolio, up to 2% of your investment portfolio.”

BTG Pactual also provides wealth management, corporate lending, and asset management with it having about $2 billion in revenue a year and $72 billion in assets under management.

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