The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has granted digital asset trading firm, ABEX Capital, authorisation to offer derivatives trading for futures, perpetual contracts and options.
The new offering, which will be enabled through the firm’s new subsidiary, ABEX UK Derivatives Limited, will allow ABEX to expand its current client offering, which focuses on spot trading.
Specifically, ABEX UK Derivatives Limited will function alongside the firm’s existing FCA-registered crypto asset business, and make use of ABEX’s proprietary, data-driven trading engine and agency execution model.
Erkan Kaya, chief executive and co-founder of ABEX, said: “Authorisation by the FCA is an important step in ABEX growth and underscores our commitment to operating within recognised regulatory standards.
“We believe that regulatory clarity and strong market infrastructure are essential to the continued participation of institutional firms in digital-asset markets.”
The move also aligns with the firm’s development and growth plans, and follows an increasing uptick in institutional demand for regulated and transparent access to digital asset derivatives markets across the industry.
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Most recently, European digital asset exchange, One Trading announced on Thursday that it had been granted a regulatory extension by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).
The authorisation will allow the firm to offer 24/7 central limit order book (CLOB) trading for equity perpetual futures, making the firm the only licensed venue in the world to offer full, continuous out-of-hours price discovery and trading for equity derivatives.
Similarly, StoneX’s digital asset subsidiary, StoneX Digital also recently received its Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from the Central Bank of Ireland, allowing the firm to expand its digital asset services and capabilities across the EU.