Bloomberg Terminal supersizes its crypto coverage: 40 more coins
Bloomberg Terminal has increased its coverage to 50 crypto assets to give its institutional investor client base better data about movements within the market. Financial and technical information platform Bloomberg has vastly expanded its coverage of crypto markets after a decision to include data on the top 50 crypto assets to the Bloomberg Terminal.Product manager for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg Alex Wenham suggested that as “the global institutional investor” community’s interest in digital assets continues to grow, they will need a way to “seamlessly incorporate digital assets into....
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Bloomberg terminal showing bitcoin prices from Coinbase and Kraken. Bloomberg has started providing bitcoin pricing to more than 320,000 subscribers via its Bloomberg Professional service. The service will allow users to monitor and chart data from Coinbase and Kraken. It will also track digital currency news and relevant social media posts from more than 100,000 sources. All users need to do to access the new service is type VCCY on the Bloomberg Professional service. Bloomberg was rumoured to be working on a bitcoin price ticker last August. At the time an inside source told BTCGeek....
Article updated on August 11 at 23:50 (BST). A source inside Bloomberg has privately confirmed that the company is testing a bitcoin ticker among its internal staff. The news, which should be officially confirmed by Monday, first surfaced on BTCGeek yesterday. The site said that someone overheard an employee of the financial giant at a Satoshi Square meeting mentioning that the currency was now available on the terminal, and that subsequent checks confirmed it. "Bloomberg employees can see the Bitcoin ticker under {XBT Crncy} on their Bloomberg terminal and look up it's [sic] pricing,"....
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), which has made life for Bitcoin companies difficult with its BitLicense, has gone soft on Symphony, a secure messaging company backed by 15 Wall Street banks. The company has launched its new services after hammering out a deal with the regulatory agency that once threatened to shut down the first real challenge to the Bloomberg Terminal. It appears Symphony is going to give tough competition to Bloomberg, the world’s largest provider of financial information. The people behind Symphony believe that it will evolve into a hub for all....
Bitcoin cryptobanking service Coinkite has today revealed a brand-spanking-new payment point-of-sale terminal that accepts, well, Bitcoin. Not only that, the terminal also accepts Litecoin as well. It would like a traditional credit card terminal would, allowing customers to purchase goods without the need for a mobile phone or computer. A QR code reader reads Bitcoin addresses, and voila. The built-in receipt printer then prints QR codes and relevant transaction information. In addition, the terminal accepts Coinkite debit cards. The device has Wi-Fi and world GSM connectivity built in,....
Formally, Bloomberg Businessweek has apologized to Binance and Changpeng Zhao, co-founder, for a 2022 story that falsely characterized Zhao as the head of a “Ponzi scheme.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Bites The Dust? Peter Schiff Celebrates Gold ATH, Trashes Crypto Modern Media CL, Bloomberg’s publisher, issued a public apology in their 250th edition, indicating a great […]