Tinkoff may add cryptocurrency investment

Tinkoff Investments, a service for the purchase of securities and currency, is consideringAbility to accesscryptocurrency market, the director of the company Dmitry Panchenko told TASS about this.

He said that at the moment brokers cannot legally offer this service:

"The market is at the stage of research and development in terms of tools, some new business ideas."

Panchenko added that they are now studying the experience of Robinhood, Revolut and PayPall.

According to independent estimates, the volume of Russian assets oncrypto exchanges exceed $ 15 billion, and this cannot but attract such players as Tinkoff Investments. However, active integration is hindered by the imperfection of the law "On digital assets" and the negative attitude of the Bank of Russia towards them.

"In one way or another, people receive this service outside the country.Potentially, it would be right to carry out this service in the Russian field.So far, this is not possible legally, but the topic needs to be discussed and studied more deeply.", - explained the position of the company Panchenko.

Panchenko added that it is in the interests of brokers to make cryptocurrency available to investors along with stocks, bonds and other investment instruments as an investment.

"We see demand for investment purposes – not as a means of payment or as a means of transporting assets, but as an investment tool for investment and potential profit", - he summed up.

The entrepreneur disagrees with this position andeconomist Dmitry Potapenko. On the air of Uncle Po's Course: Breaking News, he said that the announced non-working days, which may last longer than the announced period, as well as the general economic situation in the country, are pushing businesses and citizens to alternative means of payment, including cryptocurrencies.

We will remind, in June, the president of Tinkoff Bank, Oliver Hughes, said that they are ready to provide customers with the opportunity to trade cryptocurrencies, but this is hindered by the tough position of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in relation to assets.

Where is it more profitable to buy cryptocurrency? TOP-5 exchanges

For a safe and convenient purchase of cryptocurrencies with a minimum commission, we have prepared a rating of the most reliable and popular cryptocurrency exchanges that support deposits and withdrawals of funds inrubles, hryvnias, dollars and euros.

The reliability of the site is primarily determinedtrading volume and number of users. By all key metrics, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world is Binance. Binance is also the most popular crypto exchange in Russia and the CIS, since it has the largest cash turnover and supports transfers in rubles from bank cardsVisa / MasterCardand payment systemsQIWI, Advcash, Payeer.

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Rating of cryptocurrency exchanges:

#	Exchange:	Website:	Rating:
1	Binance (Editor's Choice)	https://binance.com	9.7
2	Huobi	https://huobi.com	7.4
3	Exmo	https://exmo.me	6.9
4	OKEx	https://okex.com	6.5
5	Bybit	https://bybit.com	6.3

The criteria by which the rating is set in our rating of crypto-exchanges:

• Work reliability— stability of access to all functions of the platform, including uninterrupted trading, deposits and withdrawals of funds, as well as the duration of the market and daily trading volume.
• Commissions– the amount of commission for trading operations within the platform and withdrawal of assets.
• Additional features and services— futures, options, staking, NFT marketplace.
• Feedback and support– we analyze user reviews and the quality of technical support.
• Convenience of the interface– we evaluate the functionality and intuitiveness of the interface, possible errors and failures when working with the exchange.
• final grade– the average number of points for all indicators determines the place in the ranking.

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