GIbraltar rolling out the red carpet for crypto and distributed ledger technology
Gibraltar's Finance Minister, Albert Isola, talks regulation, Brexit and what hurdles might be holding back institutional crypto trading.
Crypto
CSDs offered huge role in supporting crypto assets
The involvement of CSDs in a governance and operational role could help increase trust of investors, and raise the quality of the crypto-trading ecosystem.
Trading Venues
Fidelity Investments unveils dedicated crypto trading and custody business
New business known as Fidelity Digital Assets will offer custody and trade execution of cryptocurrencies.
Winklevoss Twins’ Gemini crypto exchange adds Litecoin trading and custody
Trading in Litecoin on the Gemini crypto exchange will commence on 16 October.
Goldman Sachs’ former COO Gary Cohn joins blockchain startup
Gary Cohn has joined the board of advisors at blockchain data sharing startup Spring Labs.
Coinbase executive departs for COO role at Bakkt
Adam White, the fifth employee to join Coinbase, will leave and join Bakkt in November as its chief operating officer.
CQG to provide trading tech for ErisX crypto exchange
Eris Exchange will implement the CQG Desktop trading platform on its new crypto derivatives marketplace.
trueEX to launch Bitcoin swaps contracts
US SEF trueEX will launch Bitcoin swap contracts through its digital asset marketplace trueDigital.
Citi‘s quantitative execution head to lead Eris Exchange’s crypto venture as CEO
Thomas Chippas has been appointed CEO of Eris Exchange’s new crypto marketplace, which is backed by Virtu Financial and DRW.
Coinbase hires former Instinet CEO to lead institutional sales
Jonathan Kellner will take charge of the institutional business at Coinbase after leading Instinet as CEO since 2014.