Sweden's Nasdaq Exchange Approves Bitcoin-based ETN
Sweden's Nasdaq exchange has approved a bitcoin-based exchange traded note (ETN), opening up investment in the digital currency to those who do not want to directly purchase and hold bitcoins. The Bitcoin Tracker One, launched by Stockholm-based XBT Provider AB, which is owned by the KnC Group and is expected to launch on 18th May. In a statement, Alexander Marsh, chief executive officer of XBT Provider AB, said: "By enabling this easy and secure way to invest in bitcoin we hope to have eliminated the boundaries that earlier prevented individuals and companies from being able to actively....
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Two weeks ago XBT Provider AB announced the authorization of Bitcoin Tracker One, the first Bitcoin-based security available on a regulated exchange. Today, Bitcoin Tracker One started trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. "NASDAQ OMX Stockholm decides to officially list 1 Exchange Traded Note issued by XBT Provider AB with effect from 2015-05-18," announced XBT Provider AB on Friday. "We are proud to offer the world's first "Bitcoin tracker" to be traded on a regulated exchange," states the XBT Provider website. "By enabling this easy and secure way to invest in Bitcoin we hope to have eliminated....
A few weeks back, Bitcoin Tracker One was authorized to be the first bitcoin-based security available for trading on a regulated exchange. Its exchange-traded note (ETN) is now being traded on Nasdaq Stockholm. "NASDAQ OMX Stockholm decides to officially list 1 Exchange Traded Note issued by XBT Provider AB with effect from 2015-05-18," XBT Provider AB announced. "We are proud to offer the world's first "Bitcoin tracker" to be traded on a regulated exchange." XBT Provider AB is a public limited liability company formed in Sweden and incorporated under Swedish law, with statutory seat in....
The disappearing distances between the Bitcoin and mainstream finance markets were further noticed when Stockholm's finance watchdog Finansinspektionen agreed to bring Bitcoin Tracker One - a Bitcoin-based security - on a local regulated exchange; thereby enabling the digital currency's entry into Sweden's NASDAQ. Following the authorization by the concerned authority, Bitcoin Tracker One ended up becoming the first digital currency-based security to have been launched on a NASDAQ regulated exchange. It is created by the Stockholm's leading Bitcoin trading firm XBT Provider. According to....
Monday morning was another watershed moment in Bitcoin history as the digital currency broke new ground in Sweden. Finansinspektionen, Sweden's controlling authority for finance, gave permissions for Stockholm's own Bitcoin-based tracker XBT Provider to be released in a public launch last month on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. Trading on the exchange began this morning. World's First Bitcoin Security on a Regulated Exchange. This new venture is the work of Swedish firm KnC Miner AB, a company that has generated $75 million of working capital since opening in 2013, and creating a new data....
Crypto exchange Coinbase has received approval to offer its full suite of retail and institutional crypto products and services in the Netherlands. “We have taken strides to work collaboratively with government, policymakers, and regulators to shape the future in a responsible way,” Coinbase said.
Dutch Regulator Approves Coinbase
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) announced Thursday that it “has successfully registered with the Dutch central bank (De Nederlandsche Bank — DNB) as a crypto service provider.” The....