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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Investments
    Testing AI’s mettle on metals pricing Premium content

    But the robots will rely on the data inputs

    A worker at a nickel smelting furnace
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    The SEC approved Bitcoin ETFs. The European Central Bank is not happy

    Reguulaaattoooooorrrssss! Mount up.

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    LexCoinbase
    Bitcoin ETF boost cuts two ways for Coinbase

    Despite positive moves by the regulator, long-term benefits for the crypto-trading platform are not clear cut

    Illustration showing Coinbase and bitcoin logos
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Bitcoin price tops $50,000 after spot ETF launches spur demand

    Flagship cryptocurrency rallies to 2021 levels on optimism about mainstream investor appetite

    A representation of bitcoin cryptocurrency
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Bitcoin ETFs launch promotional blitz after Google allows ads

    Search group now accepts advertising for crypto funds but still bans marketing of initial coin offerings

    Blackrock iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF signage at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Cryptofinance
    US turns up the heat on crypto miners Premium content

    Plus, updates on Coinbase and Grayscale

    A close up of a bitcoin mining rig with a representation of a cryptocurrency coin behind it
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Coinbase exchange slashes fees for high-volume traders

    US cryptocurrency venue in effort to grab market share from offshore rivals

    A hand holding a phone displaying Coinbase website, next to Coinbase logo
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    UK looks increasingly isolated in its anti-crypto ETF stance

    Spot bitcoin exchange traded products are already available in the US, Europe, Australia, Brazil and Canada

    US Securities and Exchange Commission logo and representation of Bitcoin
  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    Crypto may have become boring, but it still isn’t legit

    The SEC’s approval of 11 bitcoin ETFs is not as meaningful as aficionados would like to think

    Ben Hickey illustration of the bitcoin sign on a black fishing hook drawn on orange background.
  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    InterviewETF Hub
    Cathie Wood says Ark has ‘paid its dues’ after chalking up 68% gain

    Tech-focused fund posted one of the industry’s best performances last year following 2 years of declines

    Cathie Wood
  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    Traders swoop on bitcoin ‘cash and carry’ trade after ETF launches

    Activity in futures contracts linked to cryptocurrency surges to record levels in January

    Bitcoin illustration
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Cryptofinance
    The bitcoin ETF market’s single point of failure Premium content

    Plus, updates on ‘britcoin’ and Ether

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Spot bitcoin ETFs spawn nascent derivatives ecosystem

    Volatility of the cryptocurrency means a host of risk-on/risk-off strategies will join Roundhill Bitcoin Covered Call ETF

    Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Is the worst over for Bitcoin?

    Lol probably not, but JPMorgan says it’s possible

  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Bitcoin price falls 15% following launch of ETFs

    Cryptocurrency drops below $39,000, defying expectations of gains after SEC ruling

    A sign outside the Nasdaq exchange in New York marking the launch of BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF, the iShares Bitcoin Trust, on January 11
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    US Securities and Exchange Commission
    ​SEC says false bitcoin post came after phone number was switched

    Fake announcement on social media platform X sparked cryptocurrency frenzy a day before ETF approvals

    A visual representation of bitcoin
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    What’s next for Bitcoin ETFs?

    Bitcoin ETFs launch to high expectations, but the price of the coin falls

  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Cryptofinance
    Bitcoin ETF rush spells uncertain future for Grayscale Premium content

    Plus, updates on Tether and the stablecoin market

    An image of a bitcoin with the Grayscale name behind it
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    If spot bitcoin ETFs are so great, why’s the bitcoin price down?

    Fade to Grayscale

  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Passive Investing
    Vanguard has no plans to join spot bitcoin ETF fray

    But one observer points out it is already possible to access a bitcoin futures ETF via Vanguard’s US platform

    US Securities and Exchange Commission logo and representation of Bitcoin cryptocurrency
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Firms pitch inverse crypto funds after SEC’s bitcoin ETF approval

    Planned funds could add leverage, write options and cover other digital currencies

    A representation of bitcoin cryptocurrency
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    US bitcoin ETFs pull in $871mn in first three days of trading

    Grayscale has outflows of more than $1.1bn as investors turn to BlackRock and Fidelity for new crypto products

    Grayscale signage
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Tether crypto token increasingly favoured by money launderers, UN warns

    Digital currency at the heart of scams including fake romance frauds known as ‘pig butchering’, report says

    The Tether logo on a phone
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Bitcoin’s Wall Street takeover frustrates crypto’s true believers

    Approval of first bitcoin ETFs undermines libertarian vision of alternative to mainstream finance

    Pedestrians walk past a Sakura Bitcoin Exchange Inc. store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Richard Bernstein
    Bitcoin ETFs are a siren song, not proof of concept

    Well-established financial institutions might want to be wary of speculation without a broader transactional use for crypto

    ‘The Tulip Folly’, an 1882 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme
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