The strategic entry of institutional investors into cryptocurrency | Opinion

Institutional investors are transforming digital assets into integral components of the global financial system, redefining investment paradigms.

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Fidelity Survey: Institutional Investors Plan To Buy More Bitcoin, Ether, And Other Cryptos

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74% of institutional investors intend to purchase digital assets, details inside

Even though Bitcoin is currently trading at a little over $20,000, 70% less than its all-time high of $69,044, institutions continue to remain bullish. 58% of institutional investors were invested in The post 74% of institutional investors intend to purchase digital assets, details inside appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Does the Ethereum Merge offer a new destination for institutional investors?

Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors matter because they invest for the long term, helping solve crypto’s volatility problem.

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Bitcoin Crash Sends Institutional Investors Running For The Hills

Small and retail investors are not the only ones getting hit hard by the Bitcoin crash. Institutional investors are also feeling the heat of the market crash. This has sent the institutional investors running as inflows had halted for the last week.

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Crypto Rising: 80% Of Major Investors See Bright Future For Cryptocurreny, Survey Shows

The trend of financial institutions incorporating cryptocurrencies into their portfolios has grown in recent years. Institutional investors and asset managers have begun to include cryptocurrency as pure digital assets.

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Solana Becoming More Popular with Institutional Investors

Solana might be the next cryptocurrency on institutional investors' radar, according to Sam Bankman-Fried

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Fidelity Unveils Crypto Analytics Solution “Sherlock” To Help Institutional Investors Better Evaluate Market

Fidelity Investments, the giant financial investment management firm, unveils a new analytics platform tailor-made to help institutional investors evaluate the digital assets market accurately and make decisions accordingly.

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JPMorgan: Recent Decline in Bitcoin (BTC) Volatility Is Turn-on to Institutional Investors

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JPMorgan: Entrance of Tesla into Crypto Space Will Not Lead to Influx of Institutional Investors

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Coinbase Sees More Institutional Investors Buying Bitcoin in H1

Coinbase says more institutional investors are now using its platform to build direct positions in the cryptocurrency market. Crypto fund managers are now getting more backing from institutional investors that see the crypto market as an alternative investment strategy.

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Bitcoin still popular with institutional investors - Sign of better days?

It's no secret that many institutional investors have taken quite a shine to cryptocurrencies and the digital assets market over the past few months. While the likes of Bitcoin and crypto, in general,The post Bitcoin still popular with institutional investors - Sign of better days? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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26% of Institutional Investors Have Bitcoin, 11% Have Eth Says Fidelity

Institutional investors are growing their allocation towards cryptos from 22% last year to 27% according to a new survey by Fidelity. From November 2019 to early March 2020, 800 investors... The post 26% of Institutional Investors Have Bitcoin, 11% Have Eth Says Fidelity appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Why Blockstream’s Adam Back Is Convinced Bitcoin Will Shatter $300,000 Even Without Institutional Investors

Blockstream CEO Adam Back is of the opinion that bitcoin will eventually cross the $300k mark even without the participation of institutional investors. Per Back, retail investors -who have been backing BTC even since its debut 11 years ago- will be enough to spark a rally that takes bitcoin to these heights as institutional investors […]

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Study: Institutional investors prefer Tether and store assets on exchanges

Binance Research published a report that analyzed the behavior and strategies of institutional cryptocurrency investors.

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Fidelity Vice President: Bitcoin Risks for Retail Investors Much Different Than Institutional Investors

In an interview with CNBC Squawk Box, Kathleen Murphy – the Fidelity Investment’s Personal Investing President, states – “We want to be very careful that investors don't –who aren't institutional investors don't make a mistake with cryptocurrency.

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How Institutional Investors Are Changing the Cryptocurrency Market

Institutional investors trading cryptocurrency gained ground in 2018, with a number of high profile players edging in and taking a seat at the table. Increased interest from larger investors may have played a part in supporting digital assets as well as distorting the market.

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Poloniex Opens Up to Institutional Investors

After its acquisition by Circle, and exchange continues to boost its image as a fully transparent market and is now opening up to the potential of institutional investors.

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Binance Opens its Doors to Institutional Investors

With the launch of Bakkt only a few weeks away and on the 12th of December, the popular cryptocurrency exchange of Binance has announced a list of products and services geared towards attracting institutional investors.

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Storonsky: ‘No Interest from Big Institutional Investors’ (Why He’s Wrong)

Last week, Bitcoinist argued that cryptocurrency enthusiasts should stop waiting for institutional investors to arrive — because they’re already here. Not everyone shares that opinion.   According to a recent report from Bloomberg, institutional investors don’t have much of an ‘appetite’ for digital currencies.

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Institutional Traders Haven’t Rescued Crypto Yet

Throughout 2018’s price slump, investors in digital assets hoped for an influx of institutional investors to rescue crypto prices. Retail investors pinning their hopes on large investors breaking digital assets out of their price slump are beginning to make peace with an uncomfortable fact — the institutional investors are already here.

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Institutional Investors Make The Biggest Cryptocurrency Purchases

Generally when we think of big-time cryptocurrency investors, people like the Winklevoss twins come to mind. Not so much do we consider institutional investors—large, nonperson investment entities—as big digital asset buyers.

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Institutional Crypto Investors Are Sneaking into Bitcoin Industry Via OTC Trading

The $220 billion cryptocurrency industry is finding more and more investors that want to get involved, leading some to believe that institutional investors are being more cautious than others. However, they are more involved than the public has been led to believe.

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U.S. Crypto Investment Firm Attracts $22M in Series A, Looks to Expand Services

Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency investment firm SFOX has raked in roughly $22. 7 million in its Series A funding. The round was headed by venture platforms Social Capital and Tribe Capital and earned the participation of other firms like DCG, SV Angel, Blockchain Capital and Y Combinator.

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Institutional Investors Will Bring Big Money But Is It Great For Crypto?

Is Help From Institutional Investors A Blessing Or A Curse? The beauty of Bitcoin is simple – consumers have the option to be responsible as their own banks. They can make investments and use tools that were previously inaccessible to them.

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Three Factors Motivating Institutional Investors to Get Into the Crypto Market

As  cryptocurrency adoption continues to grow, institutional investors now have their eyes set on this revolutionary market. The steps some governments have taken to streamline the crypto market seem to have increased the confidence of institutional investors as reflected by their recent actions.

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Institutional Investors: Thriving Amid Change

In a world in profound flux, where do we look for the great investment ideas and strategies of today—and the next 50 years? Some of the Pacific Region’s largest institutional investors will discuss the importance of agility as we prepare for the next wave in asset management. What will be the impact of the region’s […]

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Coinbase App Downloads Have Dropped, but Interest in Cryptos Isn’t Waning

Due in part to the recent bear market for cryptocurrencies, digital currency exchange Coinbase has seen a drop in the number of downloads of its app, reaching levels that are comparable to April 2017.

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BitGo Crypto Custody Service Adds 57 Ethereum ERC-20 Tokens For Investors

BitGo Adds 57 ERC-20 Tokens And Continues With its Custody Service Expansion Institutional investors may now be able to have a better access to the cryptocurrency market. The startup known as BitGo, said that it expanded its suite of custody products and services to support 57 new ERC-20 tokens. BitGo has been an industry leader […]

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Bitcoin ETF license application with SEC filed by CBOE global markets

The U. S. Securities Exchange Commission [SEC] has received an application for a Bitcoin ETF license from CBOE Global Markets. The license would enable even greater institutional investors to invest in Bitcoin.

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Cryptocurrency Ownership a Hurdle to Investment

Security Cryptocurrency analysts are increasingly arguing that the lack of custody services provided by leading players from within the finance industry pose a significant barrier to institutional investors seeking exposure to the cryptocurrency markets.

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Crypto Custody Poses Barrier to Institutional Investment

Cryptocurrency analysts are increasingly arguing that the lack of custody services provided by leading players from within the finance industry pose a significant barrier to institutional investors seeking exposure to the cryptocurrency markets.

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CBOE Files with SEC for Bitcoin ETF

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is examining an application from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Global Markets which, if approved, could grant the company a coveted bitcoin ETF license, and bring new waves of institutional investors to the bitcoin arena.

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Are Bitcoin ETFs On the Way? Cboe Submits First Application Following Moderate SEC Classification

Cboe Global Markets has filed a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). If approved, it would draw in institutional investors into the Bitcoin market.

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So, Where Are All the Institutional Investors At?

Through much of 2018, those in the cryptocurrency space have heard the same reassuring statements over and over — namely, ones claiming a flood of institutional investors is about to enter the market.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Might Still Dip Below $5,000 But Future Prospects Are Brighter Than Ever

Bitcoin (BTC) is still in a downtrend. The price action looks weaker with every passing day and volume continues to dwindle. Buyers and sellers on most exchanges are now a limited number of cryptocurrency day traders.

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The weekly news! Coinbase custody opens, Malta adopts crypto law and bitter actually invaded the EU!

Coinbase Custody Opens The big story on Tuesday was that the new institutional offering Coinbase Custody officially opened for business. The service will be onboarding crypto hedge funds, exchanges and ICO projects over the coming weeks.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Exchanges, Altcoins and Allegations

Coinbase continues to grow with their new high-end investment product Coinbase Custody, while Binance had to run a system update following some issues with its Syscoin wallet API.

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Swiss Stock Exchange Operator Plans to Launch Crypto Exchange

SIX, the firm that operates and owns the Swiss stock exchange, has announced plans to launch a fully regulated digital cryptocurrency exchange. The firm says it plans to launch "the first market infrastructure in the world” which will “offer a fully integrated end-to-end trading" while providing a safe environment where digital assets can be issued and existing securities and non-bankable assets can be tokenized.

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Coinbase UK CEO Interview: Huge Interest From Institutional Investors Toward Crypto

Coinbase UK CEO Zeeshan Feroz is working to achieve a crypto revolution amidst hesitant bankers in a city torn over Brexit. During London Teck Week, he made a speech on blockchain’s potential to connect the unbanked and rebuild the entire financial system.

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Coinbase service launch marks new era in crypto custody solutions

The launch of “institutional grade” cryptocurrency custodian services by Coinbase and others is easing the path of major investors into cryptographic assets

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FCA Chooses Blockchain Companies for Fourth Cohort of Regulatory Sandbox

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), responsible for conduct and relevant prudential regulation of financial services firms and financial markets in the U. K. , has announced the details of the firms selected to be part of cohort 4 of its regulatory sandbox, according to an FCA post.

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Australia’s First Regulated Exchange Independent Reserve Adds Ripple to Its Cryptocurrency Offering

Starting this Saturday, July 7, the new coin will become available for trading to both institutional and individual investors via over the counter market. The post Australia’s First Regulated Exchange Independent Reserve Adds Ripple to Its Cryptocurrency Offering appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Coinbase Custody broker-dealer previously charged with putting customer assets at risk

Coinbase’s new solution for institutional investors launched yesterday to great fanfare. It offers solutions for long-awaited institutional money to flow into the market. Electronic Transaction Clearing [ETC], the registered broker-dealer through which Coinbase aims to conduct transactions, was charged by the US Securities and Exchanges Commission [SEC], earlier this year. The charges against it were […]

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Bitcoin is ‘Number One’ for Institutional Investors, Claims Element Group

While everyone currently in the cryptocurrency space eagerly awaits the supposedly inevitable flood of institutional money, questions have been asked as to where said funds will go. Element Group’s Thejas Nalval claims Bitcoin is “number one on that list.

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What this means for bitcoin why institutional money is coming

But is it really the case that institutional investors are waiting on the sidelines for the right framework to buy in? Also read: Shapeshift CEO Defeats Peter Schiff in Bitcoin Debate Institutional Money Is Coming but Will It Benefit Retail Investors? Crypto assets surged by an average of 11.4% on Monday, with bitcoin, predictably, the first

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Coinbase Custody Officially Open For Business, Seeking Institutional Investors

Last week, Coinbase Custody accepted its first deposit, and today the company proudly announced that it is open for business. The announcement was written in a blog post published today, July 2. Product Lead Sam McIngvale writes in the post, “Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue on-boarding a set of world-class clients that includes leading… The post Coinbase Custody Officially Open For Business, Seeking Institutional Investors appeared first on UNHASHED.

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Why Institutional Money Is Coming and What This Means for Bitcoin

Institutional money is coming. At least that’s been the refrain from desperate cryptocurrency traders for the past six months, praying for an influx of new fiat to shore up prices and float their alt bags.

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Brokers Could Bring Billions to the Crypto Markets

The democratic, decentralized setup of digital currencies has kept brokers at bay. While Wall Street has been skeptical of the potential of digital currencies, a telltale sign of newfound interest could be the advent of brokerage services.

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