cryptocurrencies

Jul 27, 2022

Bitcoin_currenciesCryptocurrency investment was raising $1 billion a week last year thanks to venture capital funds – and adoption rates are likely to continue growing, a Parisian banker told an investment conference.

Jul 20, 2022

BlockfilesBNP Paribas Securities Services has become the latest asset servicer to promote its push into the digital assets custody sector.

Jul 13, 2022

Bank of EnglandThe Bank of England and the Financial Stability Board have become the latest supervisory bodies to independently call for a regulatory framework for the trading of crypto and digital assets.

Jul 13, 2022

SOLDDigital assets specialist GMEX has acquired the crypto custody service Pyctor from Dutch bank ING.

Jul 06, 2022

European Commission buildingThe European Parliament and the Council Presidency have reached agreement on the Markets in Crypto Assets directive, landmark legislation designed to bring the rapidly growing crypto assets sector into a regulatory framework.

Jul 06, 2022

AcquisitionJersey-based digital asset investment firm CoinShares has bought Napoleon Asset Manager, a French firm that claims to be one of the first crypto asset managers to be licensed under the AIFM directive, as of 2019.

Jun 29, 2022

Digital ageFrance-based asset servicer Caceis is the latest firm to announce plans to develop its custody service for digital assets.

Jun 22, 2022

Deutsche BoerseDeutsche Börse is set to introduce a market data offering that includes real-time and historical tick-level data for crypto and digital assets.

Jun 22, 2022

CryptocurrenciesGlobal custodian Citi has become the latest firm to reveal its plans for a digital asset custody service.

Jun 15, 2022

Hedge fundThe number of hedge funds investing in digital assets has doubled in the course of a year, according to research from PwC.

The fourth Annual Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report, produced by PwC and Elwood Asset Management, shows that there are now more than 300 traditional hedge funds with holdings in crypto or digital assets, which accounts for more than a third of the hedge funds sector.

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