vtb russia - VTB Pushes to Open Russia’s First Bank-Run Bitcoin Trading Desk as Kremlin Moves to Classify Mining as an Export
Russia’s second-largest lender, VTB, is positioning itself to become the first major bank in the country to let customers trade bitcoin and crypto directly.
Andrey Yatskov, head of VTB’s brokerage arm, told Russian outlet RBC that client demand for “real” crypto — not just derivative products — is rising sharply. “As we see it, real cryptocurrency will be available for purchase via our brokerage accounts,” he said, according to DLNews reporting.
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