Tagged: etf

December 31, 2019 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s Securities Regulatory Commission has confirmed that it recently received an application for a blockchain-related exchange-traded-fund (ETF). The nation’s securities regulator noted that the proposal was submitted on December 24, 2019 by Penghua Fund, a Shenzhen-headquartered asset manager. According to the filing, the ETF application… Read More

November 16, 2019 @ 4:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tether Inc, makers of a popular cryptocurrency that mimics USD (“tether” or USDt), has asked a judge in New York for permission to file a motion to dismiss a class-action suit filed against the company last month. The suit alleges that parties at Tether Inc and… Read More

November 14, 2019 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

IPC, a secure trading and communications network for financial institutions, is adding a cryptocurrency platform through which IPC customers can create their own cryptocurrency Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). The new feature is via a partnership with ZoozBit. IPC has been anchored in the more traditional securities… Read More

October 10, 2019 @ 2:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In a 112-page order, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected NYSE Arca’s request for a rule change to allow the company to sell a “Bitwise” Bitcoin ETF to retail traders. The proposal is believed to be the last remaining request for a… Read More

September 18, 2019 @ 8:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

VanEck and SolidX have withdrawn their request to the SEC for a rule change that would have allowed the Cboe BZX Exchange to list retail shares issued by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust. The application for the rule change was first filed January 30th of this… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 11:03 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Jay Clayton has told a reporter at CNBC that manipulation in crypto markets remains a concern and that there is “still work to be done” before the Commission can approve Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETFs). Clayton told Bob… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 9:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Van Eck and SolidX have announced they will commence selling shares in their Bitcoin Trust to qualified institutional buyers outside the US in coming days. The companies have been working to for more than a year to obtain a green light from the SEC to sell… Read More

July 25, 2019 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cannabis sector is smoking hot. The initial euphoria of legalization in Canada and multiple US state has pushed individual Marijuana focused companies to all time highs. Cambria Investment Management is capitalizing on this rush by launching a new exchange-traded fund: Cambria Cannabis ETF. The… Read More

June 9, 2019 @ 12:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdBureau has partnered with Amplify to create a new Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that targets the Fintech sectors of peer to peer lending (marketplace) and crowdfunding. The LEND ETF corresponds to the CrowdBureau Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending & Equity Crowdfunding Index (the Index). The Index is comprised… Read More

May 23, 2019 @ 2:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again delayed Van Eck/Solid X’s application (for a rule change) to sell shares for a Bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Cboe’s BZX exchange. The request for a rule change to enable the Van Eck Bitcoin… Read More

May 16, 2019 @ 7:32 am By Cali Haan  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted itself more time to consider a request for a rule change that would allow Bitwise Asset Management to list a Bitcoin ETF product. Bitwise is a subsidiary of ICE, owners of the New York Stock exchange… Read More

May 7, 2019 @ 10:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

In March, Bitwise Asset Management pitched their case regarding the creation of a Bitcoin ETF to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While providing a compelling argument as to why the SEC should move forward with their ETF, the presentation also provided some interesting insight… Read More

April 16, 2019 @ 10:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The recent proliferation of themed ETF offerings- up five-fold 2014 to 2018- is leading to careful scrutiny of product names by the SEC, Bloomberg reports, and at least two firms, Amplify and Reality Shares, appear to have been required to drop the term “blockchain” from… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 4:06 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrency market data aggregator CoinMarketCap.com, a reported “top 500″ cryptocurrency website, has admitted that concerns about the accuracy of data on its site recently expressed in an ETF affiliated document at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC )”are valid,” Bloomberg reports. In order to reduce… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 7:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Exchange-traded fund provider Reality Shares has withdrawn its application to have its proposed “Reality Shares Blockforce Global Currency Strategy ETF” approved by the SEC- one day after the request was initially filed, Bitcoin.com reports. According to the “request for withdrawal,” the demand was made at… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson spoke to Roll Call about the potential for Bitcoin or crypto-based Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Jackson said he is of the opinion that someone will eventually satisfy the standards the SEC have established. But he also added the caveat… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 9:28 am By Cali Haan  |  

VanEck has withdrawn it’s its SEC application for a rule change that would allow the company to list a Bitcoin ETF on the Cboe exchange. According to the relevant release from the SEC, VanEck first filed for the rule change on June 20th of last… Read More

January 10, 2019 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, a provider of cryptoasset index and beta funds, announced on Thursday it has filed an initial registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a new proposed physically held bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to Bitwise, the… Read More

January 9, 2019 @ 10:54 am By Cali Haan  |  

Regulators from the Japanese Financial Services Agency today told Cointelegraph Japan that, contrary to information provided by an anonymous source to Bloomberg, the agency is not contemplating approving Bitcoin ETFs in Japan right now. According to an FSA source to Cointelegraph: “We are not considering… Read More

December 8, 2018 @ 8:37 am By Cali Haan  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted itself an additional 60 days to consider allowing a rule change that would permit the Cboe BZX exchange and VanEck to list a “SolidX Bitcoin ETF” stock. In so doing, the commission will take the full… Read More