Alfonso Jiménez Pérez, executive director of the Isatek firm, announced his interest in acquiring Banamex assets and launched the first offer, for 16,000 million dollars of its Amero cryptocurrency, to create the first hybrid banking entity in Mexico.
The leader of the cryptocurrency firm unveiled its offer in a statement.
The businessman pointed out that they are attentive to know “how much the amount for the purchase, in cryptocurrencies, of the financial institution would amount to,” whose assets for sale include its branches, Afore, insurance company, debit and credit card business.
He pointed out that in financial circles there are versions of offers for Banamex, between 13,000 and 14,000 million dollars, for which “Isatek raises his hand with the first offer for 16,000 million dollars in cryptocurrencies.”
Jiménez Pérez said that with the transaction he tries to “expand Isatek’s foray into the financial market, promoter of Amero, the Mexican cryptocurrency backed by real estate for an amount of 60 billion dollars.”
He recalled that now that the Bank of Mexico is going to create its own cryptocurrency, Isatek wants to “enter hybrid banking” and added that “hybrid banks are being formed worldwide and traditional banks are now involved in cryptocurrencies.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this Thursday that the sale of Banamex by Citigroup represents an opportunity to “Mexicanize” the bank.
“It becomes something good, it’s not bad, but we can turn it into something very good without authoritarian measures if we manage to Mexicanize this bank that belonged to Mexicans since the 19th century,” he stressed.
He added that Mexican businessmen like Carlos Slim, Carlos Hank and Ricardo Salinas Pliego have enough capital to buy the bank.
According to Bank of America estimates, Banamex assets would have a value close to 15,500 million dollars.
With information from EFE
