"We continue to keep pace with the times and offer our customers convenient and innovative services, including in the field of Finance. From December 14s, together with our partners of PrivatBank, we are launching a new service – payment by bitcoin. The development of financial services and products, is part of our multichannel retail strategy and we strive to meet the high expectations of our customers," commented CEO of group of companies "ALLO" Maxim Raskin.
"ALLO" along with us became pioneers of the bitcoin market in Ukraine in the near future the service of acquiring the bitcoin will be available for the Ukrainian and European businesses, said Deputy Chairman of PrivatBank Alexander Vityaz. From December 20s the service will be automatically activated for all merchants PrivatBank. Online shopping for bitcoin do not need to do additional action or to access a bitcoin wallet, payment in UAH is credited to the account of the seller, thus the bitcoin payment for the merchant is indistinguishable from other methods of payment".
As noted in the PrivatBank, bitcion acquiring this is the first in several planned products of the Bank based on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Earlier, the national Bank of Ukraine supported the efforts of banks aimed at integrating modern tools for calculations in the financial system of the country
