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Rick Rieder, the managing director of BlackRock, Inc., said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday that he could see the Bitcoin price (BTC) “go up significantly.” That’s a welcome word for bitcoin traders this week, with the price back down to the $45K handle. That doesn’t by any means make Mr. Rieder, the CIO for the world’s largest asset management company (with $9 trillion in assets under management), an all-out Bitcoin bull. He cautioned that the bitcoin price...

Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock are all huge companies in the financial space, but they cannot hold a candle to Coinbase, which is arguably on track to becoming one of the largest – if not the largest – crypto exchanges across the globe. Coinbase Is the Biggest One on the Block Coinbase has now been trading publicly on the Nasdaq for a couple of days, and the exchange – which was already quite large – is growing thanks to its new IPO (initial public offering)....

Asset manager BlackRock says it has made more than $350,000 in bitcoin futures over the past three months. The company has been dabbling in such futures since January and has garnered a pretty profit in return. BlackRock Is Beginning to Make Money On BTC Futures As it stands, two funds associated with BlackRock have permission to invest in crypto futures according to documentation brought forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At the time of writing,...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 1020. Im heutigen Video geht’s um folgende Themen: Ripple XRP explodiert 100% in 7 Tagen, BlackRock CIO glaube Bitcoin kann Gold ersetzen & ETH 2.0 erreicht Deposit Grenze Stunden vor Deadline. 1.) Ripple Kurs explodiert – XRP steigt auf über 100% in 7 Tagenhttps://cryptomonday.de/ripple-kurs-explodiert-xrp-steigt-auf-ueber-100-in-7-tagen/ 2.) CIO von BlackRock: Bitcoin könnte Gold...

One of the biggest complaints about the cryptocurrency space is that it isn’t doing enough to attract institutional investors. Well, this may be changing thanks to newfound attention for the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust in New York.Grayscale Is Boosting the Institutional PresenceDespite attempts to integrate institutional crypto trading platforms such as Bakkt – owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – the presence of professional investors in the crypto world appears to be...

While it may sound like a story out of the movies or motivational books that many people read today, the story of Bom Kim who is the founder of Coupang, a $9 billion electronic commerce company has been inspiring through an through. Coupang has been described by many to be South Korea’s “Amazon”, an appellation that hasn’t been accorded to any other company; at least not yet. Coupang has been one of those companies that have had a history of disruption and reinvention which has helped make it...

Sygnum granted capital markets services (CMS) licence for asset management in Singapore Sygnum, the digital asset technology group based in Singapore and Switzerland, announced today that it has successfully obtained a capital markets services (CMS) licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The company recently received its banking and securities dealer licence from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)....

Scopely, the Lon Angeles-based mobile game development platform has recently raised $200 million in the Series D funding round. Until now, the free-to-play mobile-games publisher $458 million in total. With the latest fundraising, Scopley’s valuation has hit a massive $1.7 billion.The Series D funding round was led by NewView Capital, along with participation from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), investment firm BlackRock, and Scottish asset management firm Baillie Gifford....

Photo: CoinspeakerTechnology innovation startup GitLab which operates fully remotely has raised $268 Million in series E funding ahead of the planned IPO. This was revealed on Tuesday the 17th of September by the company. This brings to $426 Million the total amount invested since 2015 and the $2.75 Billion the total valuation of the company which is more than twice the valuation when last year’s $100 Million series D funding took place. It was led by Goldman Sachs and Iconic...