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After striking the big banks with a totally free digital account, Banco Inter decided to fight against stockbrokers and investment platforms.
The institution announced Wednesday (12). launch of its own investment platform, which will include a system of direct trading of shares on the Home Broker. In addition to digital banking, Inter's brokerage will not charge any brokerage or custodial fees.
The platform will also have private pension funds and pension funds managed by various market institutions, as well as fixed income products issued. by other banks, such as CBD, LCA and LCI.
"With the new investment platform, we now have a more complete structure including all market products, in digital form," said João Vitor Menin, president of Banco Inter.
Before launching the new system, Inter already offered its customers free access to Treasury Direct, savings and fixed income products.
The new investment platform and stock trading system are accessible directly from the account application.
As a first step, the new features of the application will only be available to some of the customers and will be released gradually to others. Currently, Banco Inter has 1,050 million customers and 85,000 investors.
Partnership with Icatu
In order to offer private retirement products, Banco Inter has forged a partnership with Icatu Seguros. The new platform will allow all pension contracts to be fully digitalized.
"We have created a new distribution channel for social security products, which will democratize access to a product essential for the financial planning of the population," Luciano Snel said. , president of Icatu Insurance
