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A "Perfect Storm" Brewing for Bitcoin and Wall Street? Noble Markets & NASDAQ

As an asset class, Bitcoin has gained a lot of retail interest, but when it comes to the big money, institutional investors haven't had the opportunity to really participate. But that's not because Wall Street isn't interested."There is not a hedge fund or institutional investor that doesn't have Bitcoin on their white board. They know about it, they're....


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Bitcoin News Roundup – March 29th, 2015

“Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. has agreed to provide New York-based startup Noble Markets with core technology to power a new marketplace aimed at allowing companies and institutional investors such as hedge funds to trade bitcoin and related digital-currency assets. According to a joint statement provided to The Wall Street Journal, Noble’s platform will use....

Nasdaq Trading Technology to Power Bitcoin Marketplace Noble

Major American stock exchange Nasdaq has announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with bitcoin startup Noble Markets. As part of the deal, Noble will utilize Nasdaq's X-stream technology upon its formal launch, joining the 30 global marketplace that currently use the multi-asset trading platform. Led by founder and CEO John Betts, Noble Markets boasts a team with experience at traditional financial giants such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and UBS. Perhaps best known in the bitcoin community as one of the investors and organisers behind the campaign SaveGox.com, Betts....

Wall Street disaster expert Bill Noble: Crypto spring is inevitable

“It’s 10% up or 10% down each day. I don’t have to wait five years in between crises. As a matter of fact, I only have to wait about 45 minutes.” In another reality, Bill Noble would be just another guy in a suit behind a big desk at the Fed or the SEC, probably murmuring negative incantations like crypto is bad.Hes certainly got the track record for it: JP Morgan, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs. But thats Noble in an evil mirror dimension. In our world, he is a true crypto guy, talking to me in a t-shirt with bicycles in the back of the room. He turned from the Dark Side and joined....

Bitcoin in the Headlines: Wall Street Goes 'Nuts'

Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media and its impact. While bitcoin's ability to deliver on its potential is still an open question, the number of Wall Street supporters for the technology grew this week, a development that was not lost in the headlines. Wall Street's new interest in bitcoin was the talk of many major publications, spurred by the news that major American stock market Nasdaq had licensed its technology to Noble Markets and further cemented by news the Bitcoin Investment Trust, the OTC Markets investment vehicle spearheaded by....

NASDAQ to Support Development of Digital Currency Marketplace

In an impressive vote of confidence, NASDAQ, the world's second-largest stock exchange after the New York Stock Exchange, has begun development on a new global exchange for Bitcoin and other digital currencies. NASDAQ signs deal with a Bitcoin startup. Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., which owns NASDAQ, has agreed to provide New York-based Bitcoin startup Noble Markets with the core technology to power the new digital marketplace. The focus of this endeavor is to allow companies and institutional investors such as hedge funds to trade bitcoin and related digital-currency assets. Nasdaq's innovative....