This is done in partnership with Bitex, a Latin America-focused exchange startup that was founded in 2014. This initiative comes up as an alternative to Swift.
Bitex Chief marketing officer, Manuel Beaudroit, told CoinDesk that the startup believes that this is the first time a domestic bank has adopted Bitcoin for cross-border payments.
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