Kraus added: Central clearing of the products significantly reduces the settlement risks and thus enables many professional investors to invest in crypto products. All clearing is set to be dealt with by Deutsche Börse Group's central counterparty, Eurex Clearing. Deutsche Börse launched the world's first centrally cleared Bitcoin ETN on Xetra back in June 2020,…
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Richard Lane, co-founder of Aquarius, commented: We are delighted to welcome CQG as a key go-to-market partner. We are soon to close our series A investment round at the end of March 2021, and this agreement marks another important milestone for Aquarius, enabling us to realise our ambition to launch and grow a fairer trading…
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There was a stream of updates noting that the team was working to fix the issue stayed down until Wednesday morning. The episode of systemic failure was not the first, just the previous day on 22 February there and another one occurred in mid-January. They were resolved swiftly by the company, just in a few…
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Denis Golomedov, CMO at RoboMarkets commented: We have claimed repeatedly that our priority is protection of clients’ interests. That is why we have decided to close crypto for our clients. This will help us make the clients’ assets safe from high risks entailed by operations with crypto instruments. The decision is influenced by UK FCA’s…
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The post said: On 6 January we restricted UK retail clients from increasing their exposure to cryptocurrencies, in accordance with the ban imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on the sale of crypto derivatives. We have now reached our internal product limit for exposure to cryptocurrencies, and as a result will be removing cryptocurrencies…
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Not only has Coinbase facilitated major purchases from Tesla, but its agency OTC desk also acted as the primary execution partner for a multi-billion bitcoin investment throughout last year for business intelligence service, MicroStrategy. Instead of executing client trades on an exchange, the OTC agency unit earns its commission by completing client deals directly between…
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Pierce commented: It’s not only that there have been calls for clarity for some time and that a new administration brings the chance to take a fresh look, but it also is a moment where it seems others in the marketplace are also taking a fresh look. Electric car-maker Tesla announced its $1.5 billion investment…
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With the new point-of-presence, the company has created a global environment that connects major crypto exchanges across multiple geographies: America (Gemini, CME, ICE’s Bakkt, Coinbase, Kraken, Bittrex), Europe (BitMEX, Deribit, LMAX, Bequant, Bitstamp, Bitfinex) and Asia (Binance, Huobi, FTX, OKEx, Bybit). The interest in crypto trading among institutional investors involved has been growing and they…
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Marie Tatibouet, CMO at Gate.io commented: We have an extremely rich altcoin repository (especially DeFi) and over 300 tokens (>400 pairs) available for trading overall. We are also aware of the vulnerabilities that come with a new listing. Hence, we maintain high standards - every single project gets closely vetted by the team and the…
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The official announcement stated: In many ways, this collaboration started with the Scaling Bake-Off that we hosted in this community with the Ethereum Foundation. In this new stage of our partnership, immediate efforts will be focused on bringing Ethereum to Reddit-scale production. Our intention is to help accelerate the progress being made on scaling and…
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