Russian Two Largest Banks Sberbank And Alfa-Bank Are Piloting Crypto Portfolios
It has been recently reported that two Russian largest banks are piloting cryptocurrency portfolios for their private clients.
As per the report under the control and monitoring of the Bank of Russia, two largest banks Sberbank and Alfa Bank are going to suggest their clients shares in a particular fund that will be selling the six most popular cryptocurrencies on main exchanges among them Kraken and Bitstamp.
Sberbank which is the major governmental bank accountable for handling government staff salaries, and Alfa Bank which is the largest private bank in the country, design to include crypto trading with the assistance of the AddCapital investment fund, the National Settlement Depository and Group IB.
Add Capital, the capital investment fund which took part in the last pre-sale of Telegram tokens, is declared to be responsible for the technical solution for the project. CEO Alexey Prokofyev mentioned the investment trial will observe investors acquire a share of the fund.
In fact the portfolio will involve the six most popular cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum and litecoin. The conjunction of coins will be reconsidered four times a year, and their scales will be balanced by a trading algorithm.
“The shares are liquid and a client can send them for fiat currencies any time,” Prokofyev said.
The National Settlement Depository, which is a part of the Moscow Exchange Group, will be operating as the guardian. Meantime testing the portfolio process will take approximately 45 days, the particular deadline have not been mentioned.
