Softbank backed startup to offer retail crypto trading
DriveWealth aims to be a crypto liquidity provider to compete with Coinbase while giving its partners’ retail clients the ability to trade crypto on their platforms. Stock brokerage firm DriveWealth has entered the cryptocurrency industry by launching two subsidiaries designed to allow its partners to offer crypto trading to retail investors. DriveWealth is a New Jersey-based company backed by Japanese tech giant Softbank and is valued at $2.85 billion. The push into the crypto space was motivated by traders who are forced to trade across what DriveWealth CEO Bob Cortright told CNBC is an....
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