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President Biden signs infrastructure bill into law, mandating broker reporting requirements
15.11.2021
Crypto was absent from every speaker's lips during the signing ceremony, with bipartisanship and jobs seeming to be the theme of the afternoon
Financial Advisors Managing $110 Trillion Can Now Offer Crypto Trading to Clients via Interactive Brokers
19.10.2021
Registered investment advisors (RIAs) with about $110 trillion under management can now offer their clients cryptocurrency trading through Interactive Brokers. RIAs manage portfolios of almost 61 million clients. Registered Investment Advisors Can Now Offer Cryptocurrencies to Clients Global...
Interactive Brokers launches crypto trading in US for four tokens
18.10.2021
U.S.-based financial advisers with Interactive Brokers are now able to recommend cryptocurrency investments to their clients
Interactive Brokers Launches Cryptocurrency Trading for Customers Through Paxos
15.9.2021
Interactive Brokers, one of the largest online brokerage firms, has announced today it is offering cryptocurrency trading services in alliance with Paxos. Users of the platform now have a complete suite of cryptocurrency trading options, along with traditional trading offerings like stocks...
US Senators and Treasury Reach Agreement on Crypto Requirements in Infrastructure Bill
9.8.2021
Five U.S. senators have been working with the Treasury Department and have come up with a compromise crypto amendment to the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. “We’ve worked with the Treasury Department to clarify the underlying text and ensure that those who are not acting as brokers...
Finland Looking for Brokers to Sell Seized Bitcoins Worth $80 Million
30.7.2021
Finland’s customs authority is looking for brokers to sell 1,981 bitcoins seized in drug cases. The coins are currently worth nearly $80 million. Finland’s customs authority announced Thursday that it is seeking brokers to sell 1,981 bitcoins seized in drug busts, Bloomberg reported...
Billionaire Thomas Peterffy Invests in Crypto, Says There’s a Chance It Could Be ‘a Dominant Currency’
22.7.2021
The founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers, Thomas Peterffy, has revealed that he put money in crypto because he believes “there’s a small chance that this will be a dominant currency, so you have to play the odds.” Interactive Brokers Chairman Invests in Crypto Thomas...
Interactive Brokers to Launch Cryptocurrency Trading End of Summer, CEO Reveals
9.6.2021
Interactive Brokers will add cryptocurrency trading to its platform by the end of the summer, CEO Thomas Peterffy has revealed. The platform has about 1.33 million customer accounts and $330.6 billion in customer equity as of the first quarter. Interactive Brokers to Offer Cryptocurrency Trading...
Major US trading platform Interactive Brokers to offer cryptocurrency trading
9.6.2021
Interactive Brokers wants to offer as yet unnamed cryptocurrencies to its traders
Tiger Brokers and Futu to Offer Crypto Trading Services Outside China
1.6.2021
Two Chinese online brokerages have set out to enter the global crypto trading market. The platforms, Tiger Brokers and Futu, are planning to offer their services only outside the People’s Republic as Beijing is once again cracking down on bitcoin trading in the country. Major Chinese Online...
From Gold to Greenbacks: A Look at the US Dollar’s Devaluation, Manipulation and Militant Backing
26.2.2021
228 years ago the U.S. dollar was created and ever since then, the national currency has been both powerful and controversial at the same time. Moreover since 1971, after being backed by precious metals for decades, American dollars have been backed by nothing and estimates say a quarter of...
Goldman and Interactive Brokers Execs Claim Wallstreetbets Trend Could ‘Take Down the System’
31.1.2021
The heavy hitters in traditional finance have been concerned about the recent stock market action fueled by Redditors and a colossal number of retail investors. This week a Goldman Sachs executive warned that if these short squeezes continue it could “snowball through the market.”...
GameStop-Style Revolts Spread, Prompting Halt by TD Ameritrade, Nasdaq Monitoring
27.1.2021
Nasdaq and TD Ameritrade are taking a mob of Reddit traders head on
Voyager Digital Revenue Rises Over 1,000% on Increased Crypto Adoption
29.10.2020
Publicly traded digital-asset brokerage Voyager Digital registered four-digit growth in revenue in the last fiscal year
Bequant Adds New Services to Its Crypto Prime Brokerage Offering
22.10.2020
Bequant added separately managed accounts, derivatives trading and instant fund transfers in a bid to compete with rival prime brokers
Bequant, Now in Crowded Prime Brokerage Race, Adds Signature Bank Integration
18.8.2020
In a newly crowded market, Bequant is still adding features to the suite of services it's been building for the past two years
Interactive Brokers to Pay $38M in Settlement Over AML Lapses
10.8.2020
Publicly traded brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay multi-million dollar penalties to the SEC, FINRA and CFTC for failure to flag suspicious transactions and lapses in AML compliance
Crypto Trading Firm B2C2 Eyes Prime Brokerage Space With $30M Stake Sale to SBI
1.7.2020
B2C2 is eyeing its new partnership with SBI Holdings as a route to becoming a crypto prime broker
Polychain Capital, Square Crypto’s Steve Lee Invest in Bitcoin Broker’s $5.7M Seed Round
17.6.2020
Bitcoin broker River Financial has closed a $5.7 million seed round to secure additional U.S. money transmitter licenses
Voyager to Offer Interest on Three Newly Listed Stablecoins
15.1.2020
Voyager Digital will allow customers to earn interest on tether, USD coin and true USD