Blockchain Bites: Crypto in the Red, BlackRock Green Lights Bitcoin Futures
The world's largest asset manager will allow two of its funds to get into bitcoin futures, as Guggenheim speculates a market pullback in the near term.
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Per a Coindesk report and a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), investment firm BlackRock has begun trading in Bitcoin futures. BlackRock has reportedly allocated a small part of its portfolio in BTC on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange financial derivatives platform. With $8.6 trillion in assets under management (AUM), BlackRock is one […]
Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager with $7.81 trillion under management, is getting into bitcoin. The firm has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two of its funds to invest in bitcoin futures. Blackrock Gets Into Bitcoin Blackrock filed two “statements of additional information” with the SEC on Wednesday. One was for Blackrock Funds V and the other was for Blackrock Global Allocation Fund Inc. Both filings state: Certain funds may engage in futures contracts based on bitcoin. The two filings further detail, “The only bitcoin....
Amid growing institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies, it seems as though that Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, has now set its eyes on the rapidly expanding crypto space. Back in January, Bloomberg reported that Blackrock was adding Bitcoin futures as eligible investments in two of its funds — the first time the firm had offered […]
Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock, said in July that the company was seeing "very little in terms of investor demand" for cryptocurrencies. A filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, shows BlackRock Financial Management has increased the number of its Bitcoin futures contracts since Q1 2021.According to a Sept. 28 filing with the SEC, the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund included 54 Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts issued through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as of July 31. The contracts, which expired on Aug. 27, were worth $10.8 million,....
The world’s largest asset manager BlackRock has now filed for a new ETF. The crypto space has been characterized by ETF filings ever since the first Bitcoin Futures ETF made its debut on the trading markets. Since then, there have been more futures ETF filings surrounding bitcoin and ethereum, as well as spot ETF filings […]