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Crypto services startup Anchorage has surprised institutional investors with good news. Firstly, Anchorage is launching crypto brokerage service Anchorage Trading that offers numerous features to its clients. Secondly, the company announced its first acquisition. Anchorage has purchased Merkle Data, a provider of risk management and analytics software. The moves mark not only Anchorage’s expansion but also improving the quality of services it provides.Anchorage Crypto Trading PlatformThe news...

During a Hedge Fund Association Conference in New York, Christine Sandler from Fidelity Investments said that a good custodian must have geographic diversity and knowledgeable staff. She noted:“To do it really well, you have to have geographic diversity, a staff that understands the underlying technology,”That means that people who can sign the multi-signature transactions across the globe, and knowledgeable of the blockchain trends. She thinks that the custodian wallet providers like...

An office representing the Fidelity Investments firm (based in the U.S.) has opened its doors to the Europeans. On December 16, the U.K. based entity started giving hedge funds, family offices, and fund managers across the EU a possibility to buy or sell digital assets.In an interview for FNL, Michael O’Reilly, COO at Fidelity Digital Assets, have said that the company won’t even have to pass through additional law procedures:“We’ll make sure that we’re compliant with any UK or any other...

There are rumors that the bank and stock brokerage company The Charles Schwab Corp. is negotiating a purchase of online broker TD Ameritrade. The two companies are the largest publicly-traded discount brokers in the United States but it is interesting to see what would this merger mean for the cryptocurrency trading.But, let’s start from the beginning. Nebraskan TD Ameritrade has been crypto-friendly for a longer time now – meaning, its clients had the possibility to trade Bitcoin futures...

Coinspeaker Larger Bearish Sentiment Sees Bitcoin Tumbling to a Lower Handle Despite the fact that the crypto community has a number of good news, Bitcoin price is still moving down. Larger Bearish Sentiment Sees Bitcoin Tumbling to a Lower Handle Continue reading at Coinspeaker

Boston-based mutual fund behemoth Fidelity, that has incorporated more than $2.8 trillion in assets, has finally won its license from the New York State Department of Financial Services, the company confirmed on Tuesday.Actually it’s the subsidiary of this giant, called Fidelity Digital that has been opting for the license since July this year. The license will enable it to work with New York companies by offering them custody services and cryptocurrency trading.The company said in the blog...

Today, October 31, marks the 11th birthday of Bitcoin after its founder Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled the whitepaper back in 2008. Over the last 11 years, Bitcoin has established its supremacy in the crypto market as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap.On 31 October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the #Bitcoin Whitepaper.Happy Anniversary $BTC!Test your Bitcoin knowledge?https://t.co/JECDzwxCnIDiscover the history behind #Blockchain?https://t.co/EhvS2nH6BR...

Photo: Fidelity Digital Assets / TwitterAs promised, Bitcoin custodian Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) is “now engaged in a full rollout” of its custody and trading services, spreading from the limited trial users in the platform’s final test stage.Financial Times reported that by building up its crypto custody business, the focus of the company is to profit from the shortage of classically and traditionally regulated institutions as are banks and other more conservative...

London-based blockchain startup Everledger recently announced of securing a massive $20 million in Series A funding led by Tencent Holdings Ltd. Other major participants to this funding round included Rakuten, Fidelity, Graphene Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Vickers Venture Partners.Founded in 2015, Everledger uses the blockchain technology to develop an immutable ledger for asset ownership. In addition, Everledger also looks to tap other emerging technologies like AI and IoT to create robust...

While Ripple has been selling off its XRP asset holdings worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the cofounder is blazing another trail at his present operation. Jed McCaleb’s Stellar Foundation plans to give away almost $126 million in XLM which notably contrasts Ripple’s selling. Keybase users can now chat with their friends and get paid to do it. The Stellar Development Foundation announced on September 9 a 2 billion XLM airdrop.The airdrop is the biggest in Stellar’s 5-year history. In the...