WedBush Securities Is Looking For A Bitcoin Director
At the beginning of 2014, Wedbush Securities, a financial services and investment firm, decided to accept Bitcoin. A month later, the company released a research paper saying that speculation and trading on Bitcoin’s volatility, attributes regarded by most as holding back the currency, were actually its first killer app. The paper also noted that the currency would either be worth zero dollars or a million dollars. Since then, the institution has only increased their involvement in the digital currency. In November 2014, Wedbush invested in Buttercoin, a US Bitcoin exchange, which was....
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Wedbush Securities, a very large investment banking and brokerage firms is looking to hire a Bitcoin director to oversee all aspects of Bitcoin transactions within the firm. According to the Wedbush website, the position opening went live on January 8th 2015 and Wedbush seek to fill the position as soon as possible. After acquiring holdings in the Buttercoin Bitcoin exchange last year, Wedbush Securities wish to further expand their reach as well as continue to look into the technology for the future. Also read: Wedbush Securities Acquires Holdings in Buttercoin Bitcoin Exchange Service.....
J. P. Morgan may be highly skeptical about the prospects for bitcoin, but at least one financial research firm is behind the virtual currency. Institutional brokerage Wedbush Securities has become the first to accept bitcoin payments in the US. Los Angeles-based Wedbush has thus far published two reports on bitcoin through its Wedbush Equity Research operation. At the start of December, it released "Bitcoin: Intrinsic Value As Conduit For Disruptive Payment Network Technology". It followed this up with "Digitizing Trust: Leveraging the Bitcoin Protocol Beyond the Coin" a month later. Gil....
Wedbush Securities, a leading financial service provider, has announced a relationship with Bitcoin trading platform, Buttercoin. This relationship will extend the company's reach into the sphere of cryptocurrency technology. The investment amount made by Wedbush Securities is undisclosed. Buttercoin's platform allows users a fast, easy, and safe way to trade Bitcoin. Also read: Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser Doubles-Down on Internet Privacy by Partnering With Tor Project. Wedbush Continues Leading Finance Firms Into Bitcoin. Sheri Kaiserman, Head of Equities at Wedbush Securities told....
Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities’ managing director, believes BTC is on the cusp of a much bigger adoption story. Wedbush Securities, a prominent wealth manager based in Los Angeles, California, believes Bitcoin (BTC) is becoming a permanent fixture in the global financial marketplace.Managing director Dan Ives informed clients on Wednesday that corporate adoption of Bitcoin represents a much bigger story than merely predicting the digital currency’s future price.“We believe the story and theme here is much larger than just investing in Bitcoin and predicting its future price, but rather....
Think bitcoin isn't a topic of conversation among traditional financial companies? Think again. Financial services and investment firm Wedbush Securities is holding what they're calling a Transformational Technologies Conference at Le Parker Meridien in New York City today. The conference, according to Wedbush, "connects institutional investors with management executives from prominent public and private companies specializing in digital media, Internet and technology." Among the slew of discussion topics is - you guessed it - bitcoin. Wedbush Managing Director Gil Luria will be exploring....