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News/crypto
London Stock Exchange Group-owned LCH has secured regulatory approval to clear cash-settled Bitcoin index futures and options contracts.
08 April 2024
A US federal appeals court has sided with an asset manager in a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the regulator denied an application to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
30 August 2023
News/markets
Capital markets tech vendor Trading Technologies has agreed to buy Abel Noser Solutions (ANS), a provider of transaction cost analysis for investment managers, brokers, asset owners and consultants. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 August 2023
Seven major global banks have shelled out $25.4 million to fund the ongoing development of a post-trade service for exchange traded derivatives.
13 June 2023
Crypto giant Coinbase has opened a derivatives exchange for institutional investors outside of the US as it seeks to reduce its reliance on its home market in the face of regulatory scrutiny.
02 May 2023
News/retail
Social investment platform eToro is boosting its presence in the US after inking a definitive agreement to buy options trading app Gatsby for around $50 million.
17 August 2022
News/regulation
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Gemini Trust accusing the crypto exchange of false statements relating to the self-certification of a bitcoin futures product.
03 June 2022
Savings and investing app Acorns is now offering users the option to invest a portion of their portfolio in bitcoin futures.
22 March 2022
Goldman Sachs has teamed up with Galaxy Digital Holdings to execute its first over-the-counter crypto options transaction.
21 March 2022
FIA Tech, the US technology offshoot of the Futures Industry Association, has opened an R&D hub in London, its first overseas location.
13 January 2022
News/sustainable
TP Icap is teaming up with environmental risk management outfit Speedwell to launch an index that uses global weather data to track climate change thereby allowing financial risk related to the rate of change to be traded.
28 October 2021
Cboe Global Markets is making a major move into the cryptocurrency arena, agreeing to buy ErisX Digital Holdings, which operates a digital asset spot market, a futures exchange and a clearing house. Financial terms were not disclosed.
20 October 2021
Proceedings against Binance will be brought in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre by a group of disgruntled Binance customers who were unable to trade on the platform during this year’s infamous May 19th crypto crash.
19 August 2021
A group of 10 clearing firms have committed $44 million to the Futures Industry Association's FIA Tech.
16 June 2021
If the normalisation of Bitcoin and crypto-at-large is to be achieved, there are fundamental challenges that this ‘non-analogue’ asset will be faced with. During Citi’s Digital Money Symposium, panellists of the ‘Institutional Infrastructure for Crypto’ session explored the obstacles crypto firms have faced while trying to carve out a footing within the institutional ecosystem.
25 March 2021
ION Investment Group is set to snap up another fintech, agreeing to buy options technology and execution provider Dash Financial Technologies.
09 February 2021
News/cloud
Capital markets firms are acknowledging that the cloud is a catalyst for establishing competitive advantage and the financial services sector has been taking steps to prioritise digital transformation.
09 October 2020
News/Futures and options
The volatile nature of bitcoin trading has been brought into the spotlight by recent sharp rises and falls in the cryptocurrency after Mark Zuckerberg's grilling in Congress was countered by positive sentiment from China about blockchain and a future central-bank backed currency.
29 October 2019
The chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has conceded that the trading venue was subject to a series of cyber attacks this week but has insisted that an outage which brought derivatives trading to a halt was related to a software bug and not a hacker.
06 September 2019
The UK's financial services watchdog is proposing a ban on cryptocurrency derivatives for retail investors in order to prevent them incurring large losses in financial instruments they do not understand.
05 July 2019
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