Puerto Rican Digital Bank Got Permission To Offer BTC Custody

The Puerto Rican digital bank has just got permission from the local regulator to start providing BTC and Ethereum custody to retail and institutional investors as we will find out more in our latest BTC news.

The Puerto Rican digital bank or more correctly, the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions granted permission to the FV bank in order to provide custody services for crypto assets like Ethereum and BTC. The institution plans to integrate a new service to the digital banking platform as of early 2021.

Headquartered in Puerto Rico, the FV bank is a global digital bank servicing domestic and international companies that are mostly focused on providing fintech solutions. The institution announced that they received permission from the Puerto Rico financial supervisor in a press release today. Also, retail and institutional customers of the bank will be able to open up the accounts with fiat or digital asset balances just to take advantage of the custodial storage of crypto assets and exchange for fiat.

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The bank’s real-time settlement platform called FV Net will be compatible with the new custodial service. Apart from BTC and ETH, the statement failed to disclose other assets that will be available for custody. Also, the bank said that it will provide the account holders separate deposit addresses for their assets that they will hold. Since the FV bank works as a digital Bank, all customers will gain access to their crypto funds through online and mobile applications as well as insurance for the accounts.

The Chief Revenue Officer of the bank, Nitin Agarwal said that the decision to launch a custodial service for crypto assets came after the increased demand from the bank’s clients. He pointed out that the growth of the industry of the past few months has been notable but said that customers expect an easy way to invest and a secure way to hold their assets:

 “These products are proving to be very attractive to our international business, institutional investors, and retail customers. I anticipate the convergence of these products will drive growth in the bank for years to come.”

The CEO of the bank Miles Paschini reiterated the words of Agarwal saying that crypto assets are “going to be a significant part of the global monetary expansion and investment product growth.” A new report recently outlined the increasing interest from institutional investors in the crypto space as they purchased $430 million worth of various assets in one week.