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Bitcoin has been surging higher over recent weeks and months. The cryptocurrency has done so well, in fact, that it is actually the best-performing macro asset of the year — unless you count Ethereum as one.
2020-8-24 23:00 | |
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Coinspeaker CME Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Soars, Institutions Look at BTC as Inflation HedgeThe open interest for CME Bitcoin Futures has surged over 100% over the last month as concerns of inflation drive institutional players to the crypto market.
2020-8-16 10:43 | |
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Bitcoin futures have seen a rising premium over spot BTC in recent months, which seems to indicate that traders are bullish on the benchmark cryptocurrency. This premium is particularly clear while looking towards the CME – which seems to indicate that professional traders and institutions are particularly bullish on BTC at the present moment. This […]
2020-7-8 00:00 | |
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Institutional investors are taking up positions in the Bitcoin market attracting some of the biggest Wall Street hedge funds and financial institutions. WisdomTree Investments, a $60 billion dollar hedge fund, announced the launch of an electronic traded fund (ETF) index comprising of a number of digital assets including BTC.
2020-6-17 15:58 | |
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More than 85 U.S. institutions bought crypto futures last year, more than double the number touching the space in 2018, according to a new survey by Fidelity.
2020-6-10 19:06 | |
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BTC price may have only increased by 8% in the last week, but open interest for CME Bitcoin Futures is up 38% over the same period. With several economic catalysts... The post Are Institutions Re-Opening Their Bitcoin Positions? appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-5-7 14:17 | |
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NewsBTC held a conversation with Ariel Ling, CEO of Bithumb Futures. Ariel previously held senior management positions over the past 20 years at prominent traditional financial institutions like KPMG, Barclays, and most recently, Deutsche Bank.
2020-4-28 11:52 | |
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Let's face it; March was not the best of months, and Q1 2020 was not the best of quarters. Last month, Bitcoin dropped from over $9,000 to under $4,000, undoing months of gains and pulling the cryptocThe post Bitcoin Futures suggest institutions are still lurking in the shadows appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-2 17:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Dow Futures Plunged 1,000 Points after Fed Cuts Interest Rate to ZeroPreviously, the target range of the interest rate varied from 1% to 1. 25%. Now the benchmark for both short-term lending for financial institutions and a peg to consumer rates will be targeted at 0% to 0.
2020-3-16 11:53 | |
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The recent increase in CME Bitcoin futures challenges the narrative that institutional investors exited crypto
2020-3-15 23:54 | |
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Institutional investors are more bullish on Bitcoin than before. Since the derivatives market began to muster significance in 2018, its growth has been essential for the industry. The Futures contrThe post Bitcoin Futures premium double; institutions poised for upheaval appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-9 18:00 | |
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If Bitcoin price movements in 2019 were compiled into a mystery novel, it would have the most twisted, unpredictable story ever written by mankind. Last year, the community sang choruses about how “The post CME BTC futures premiums could indicate institutions are bullish on Bitcoin appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-31 17:00 | |
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At long last, the CME — one of the first regulated institutions to offer Bitcoin futures — will be launching options for its BTC futures contracts. The launch will be taking place on January 13th (today, as of the time of publishing this).
2020-1-13 02:00 | |
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At long last, Bitcoin (BTC) has started to show signs of life. Over the past 48 hours, the cryptocurrency has pressed higher, moving past the tight range in the $7,100s it was stuck in for days. Related Reading: CME Futures Data: Institutions Still Wary Despite Bitcoin’s Bullish Signs By Monday morning, the cryptocurrency was trading as.
2019-12-24 23:33 | |
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Once again, analysts have begun to flip bullish on Bitcoin (BTC), citing fundamental and technical factors to back their cheery sentiment. Though, not everyone is convinced that the cryptocurrency market is poised to see upside.
2019-12-23 04:45 | |
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The licensing of Quedex means hedge funds, miners, and institutions now have another crypto-investment option. Crypto-futures Grow in Popularity On Wednesday Quedex, a crypto futures and options exchange announced that it had obtained a license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) to operate as a crypto derivatives exchange.
2019-8-2 20:21 | |
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Bakkt’s long-delayed bitcoin futures platform is scheduled to begin testing today. The trading platform, aimed squarely at institutions, is widely expected to be a game-changer and a major catalyst for the bitcoin price.
2019-7-22 12:29 | |
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Contrary to popular belief, retail investors are still playing a major role in directing Bitcoin’s price action, says Binance CEO in a recent interview with Bloomberg. Who’s Really in Charge? As Bitcoin briefly touched $20,000 in early 2018, market analysts forecasted that the impending arrival of Bitcoin futures products, a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), and the infusion of institutional funding would drive Bitcoin towards $30,000 and possibly $50,000.
2019-7-14 00:16 | |
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Bitcoin was built as a tool that would provide respite from fiat, but it is also being used as a speculative asset for trading. Institutions like CME, CBOE, Grayscale, etc have developed products based on Bitcoin’s price movements for investors who do not want to risk it.
2019-7-4 18:30 | |
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A CFTC report has highlighted a 14 percent increase in short positions held by institutions and big traders in the CME Bitcoin futures market. Smaller retail traders are taking the other side of this trade, leading market experts to think there may be a missing piece to the puzzle, as reported by Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2019.
2019-6-27 20:00 | |
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Since last year, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) floated a payment and trading system known as Bakkt. The ICE also owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with Bakkt as a subsidiary. The Bakkt platform is a properly regulated space that serves individuals as well as institutions by offering them services that help support and secure […]
2019-6-22 21:02 | |
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CME Bitcoin futures have hit an all-time high in liquidity with 5100 contracts of open interest as per the CFTC’s data sheet. The volume on their Bitcoin contracts has been surging since the $3100 bottom with most trading activity likely to have come from institutions, June 2, 2019.
2019-6-3 17:00 | |
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Open interest on the CME Bitcoin futures has reached an all-time high (ATH) in preparation for the largest ever CME BTC futures expiration on Monday. Record Numbers for CME Bitcoin Futures CME’s data sheet for May 28, 2019 shows total open interest on its Bitcoin Futures contract at 5,190.
2019-6-2 20:00 | |
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Data from the US CFTC reveals that institutions on the CME went 100 percent long on Bitcoin futures, potentially capitalizing on yet another impressive green candle in mid-May. CME: Institutions Went 100% Long on Bitcoin According to information released by the US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission, institutional investors had opened 100 percent long Bitcoin futures contracts as of May 14th.
2019-5-23 18:00 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. The bitcoin price has broken $8,000 for the first time since July 2018, with most cryptocurrencies trading in the green.
2019-5-15 19:01 | |
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The Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) was trading with an implied Bitcoin price of over $10,000 May 14 as investor interest peaked. GBTC At 30% Bitcoin Price Premium GBTC, which has made 24-hour gains of almost 20 percent, currently trades on the basis of a single bitcoin costing around $10,200 – a full $2300, or almost 30 percent, above average market rates.
2019-5-14 16:00 | |
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Bakkt, a company established with the purpose of serving institutions, merchants, and consumers in the cryptocurrency space, provided some updates regarding the launch of its Bitcoin futures contracts.
2019-5-13 18:45 | |
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As much as some cynics, such as traditional investor Mark Dow, like to paint it, institutions are heavily invested in the crypto space already. Sure, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) recently divulged that it intends to put its Bitcoin (BTC) futures vehicle on the backburner, but investment statistics accentuate that big names are flooding.
2019-4-24 14:25 | |
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The surge of 2017 in Bitcoin prices saw the first major step from institutions when CME and Cboe launched Bitcoin futures. Throughout 2018 despite being a bear market we saw numerous developments in the form of Bakkt and Fidelity announcing their plans to enter the space among other projects undergoing the process. The year 2019 […]
2019-4-13 17:50 | |
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Data from the US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission reveals that institutional investors flipped bullish on Bitcoin as of April 2nd. The date coincides with the latest bitcoin price rally when it soared from around $4,100 to more than $5,300 in minutes.
2019-4-11 21:00 | |
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As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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The anticipation that 2019 will be the year for mass institutional crypto investment is building. The number of long awaited futures contracts and exchange traded funds to ease institutions in is growing.
2019-2-22 08:25 | |
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Bitcoin may have failed to escape its bear market yet; however, a JP Morgan analyst is claiming that a possible comeback could be ahead. On December 15, Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou made a bearish statement saying that financial institutions were losing interest in Bitcoin trading.
2019-2-7 17:14 | |
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CBOE’s Bitcoin Foray Turns One As noted by Tom Hearden, a senior trader at Skylands Capital, subsequently relayed through MarketWatch, one year and one day ago, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE Global Markets) made history, becoming one of the first financial institutions to launch a fully-fledged Bitcoin (BTC) product.
2018-12-13 04:32 | |
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What Is Bybit? ByBit is a worldwide platform for cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. It is designed for retail traders, professionals, and investment institutions. ByBit seeks to transform today’s cryptocurrency market through combining the best of digital assets and traditional finance to create the safest, most reliable, fairest, and most user-friendly trading avenue for the industry. With its […]
2018-12-12 10:04 | |
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Nasdaq Vice President Joseph Christinat has confirmed that the exchange will launch Bitcoin Futures in the first half of 2019, pending regulatory approval from the CFTC. Traditional banking institutions have been increasingly open to including the emerging asset class.
2018-12-5 12:00 | |
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It’s not what maximalists want to see but for institutions to flock in then regulators must be in the picture. This is part of the reason why the launch of Bakkt Daily Bitcoin futures has been put off to Jan 24, 2019.
2018-11-21 05:00 | |
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In the latter half of 2018, few developments have occupied crypto investors’ headspaces like the industry’s indefatigable pursuit of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-9 20:03 | |
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As Bitcoin approaches its 10th anniversary, its community, old and new, has begun taking stock of how a decade has come to alter or define the cryptocurrency — and what Bitcoin has done to alter or define the decade.
2018-11-7 19:56 | |
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Latest Bitcoin News It is increasingly becoming clear that institutions are beginning to embrace crypto as an investment asset. After Morgan Stanley research findings concluded that BTC is no longer a store of value but an institutional asset class, it is only necessary for regulators to formulate laws that satiate the demand of investors.
2018-11-5 16:29 | |
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As more people and institutions begin to recognize the rise of bitcoin, cryptocurrency is entering the mainstream conversation. It’s on par with trading futures, stocks, options and other types of securities.
2018-10-27 10:02 | |
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Bitcoin futures trading is up. American financial market company CME Group Inc. announced on Twitter early on the morning of Wednesday, October 17, 2018, that its futures products are experiencing rising volume, explaining, “In Q3, Bitcoin futures average daily volume rose 41% and open interest was up 19% over Q2.
2018-10-18 00:59 | |
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Fidelity Investments has launched a new business to allow its institutional clients to trade in digital currencies such as bitcoin, a press release reveals. Known as Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC, the company will purchase and sell cryptocurrencies for family offices, hedge funds and other monetary ventures.
2018-10-16 22:22 | |
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U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo stated he believed the recent uptick in institutional investors could help cryptocurrencies “mature” in an interview with Fox Business on Friday morning.
2018-10-13 10:00 | |
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Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), $29 billion brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, and several other large investment firms are supporting the launch of ErisX, a futures market that will integrate Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin along with Bitcoin.
2018-10-3 18:11 | |
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Industry buzz surrounded Ethereum this week as community members await the next stage of the coin’s development. The protocol also served as the jumping-off point for a new fully regulated stablecoin.
2018-9-16 18:41 | |
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Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information.
2018-9-8 21:57 | |
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Goldman Sachs is struggling to find a way to trade bitcoin. The financial services giant has scratched its plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies, at least for the near term, according to a Business Insider report on September 5, 2018.
2018-9-6 21:57 | |
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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.
2018-8-17 01:31 | |
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CME Group, the world’s largest regulated derivatives marketplace, announced plans to begin 24-hour, seven-day-a-week trading of its cryptocurrency futures and options contracts on May 29, 2026, pending regulatory review.
Bitcoin broke above $90,000 over the weekend, opening another gap in the CME futures market.
Bitcoin touched $100,000 on the CME Futures platform, while the token’s spot price lagged slightly during Thanksgiving.
BTC blasted through the $90,000 resistance level on Wednesday, defying the dollar strength.
Institutional traders are betting that Bitcoin will surge to $79,300 by the end of November. This bullish sentiment is evident in recent trading activities on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), where Bitcoin options have experienced some of their highest trading volumes ahead of the US presidential election.
CME Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Hits All-Time High with Third-Largest Five-Day Increase, Following Two Price Surges.
Friday contracts debuted on Sept. 30 with a bang, becoming CME's most successful crypto futures launch ever.