Crypto

Aite Group estimates that around 21% - or $100 billion – of cryptocurrencies have been traded in the OTC market in the first four months of 2018.

Futures volumes rise as institutional investors take to new products - as one fund says - ‘carefully and slowly’.

Crypto exchange Gemini will implement Nasdaq SMARTS Market Surveillance with Robert Cornish overseeing the project later this month.

A fully integrated trading, settlement and custody infrastructure for digital assets is set to launch in 2019.

Crypto assets and distributed-ledger technology take centre stage in the fourth round of the FCA’s regulatory sandbox.

Broadway Technology will offer institutional investors services for cryptocurrency trading.

Trade.io readies for launch of new exchange on 17 July with 1,000 users set to test its BETA version.  

Crypto platform Uphold will buy broker-dealer JNK Securities and will apply to operate an alternative trading system (ATS) in the US.

Ed Mount has been appointed chief advisor at CRYPTALGO and will sit on the advisory board alongside the former CEO of Barclays Corporate Banking.

David Lester, who was with LSEG for 16 years, has joined Archax as the startup launches its institutional-grade cryptocurrency exchange.