Tagged: cryptocurrency derivatives

August 30, 2024 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group said it will further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offerings by introducing Bitcoin Friday futures (BFF) on September 30, pending regulatory review. Sized at one-fiftieth of one bitcoin, these new weekly futures contracts “will be cash-settled to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate New… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, which claims to be the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, announced its plans to further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offering “with the introduction of Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures on August 29, pending regulatory review.” Designed to match their U.S. dollar-denominated counterparts, Bitcoin… Read More

March 5, 2021 @ 8:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bybit, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, announced on Friday it is set to suspend its services to UK customers in order to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) ban on cryptocurrency derivatives. Last summer, the FCA published its final rules banning the sale of derivatives… Read More

May 27, 2020 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Exchange, an established cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that maintains offices in Singapore, has received funding from New York-headquartered blockchain investment firm, CoinFund. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, the new investment will provide Delta Exchange with the resources needed to scale its operations… Read More

May 21, 2020 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a global markets company and the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange with over $75 billion in assets, has reported a considerable increase in its Bitcoin (BTC) options contract volume during the past week. An options contract is an agreement… Read More