Tagged: exchange traded fund

October 18, 2021 @ 4:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

After an extended wait for financial services firms attempting to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on Bitcoin, the very first Bitcoin ETF is expected to trade tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Last week, it was revealed that ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF… Read More

May 13, 2021 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Grayscale, a large digital asset manager that offers publicly listed funds that hold crypto, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund. The Fund is an investment vehicle that allows investors to participate in asset… Read More

February 15, 2021 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Researchers at Bloqport have confirmed that publicly-traded firms and fund managers now hold approximately $60 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC), which is around 6% of the digital asset’s circulating supply. Publicly-traded companies and fund managers now hold around $60 billion worth of #Bitcoin, roughly 6%… Read More

October 13, 2020 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SIMON has expanded its digital wealth management platform to include exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The company has also launched a new marketplace with Innovator’s Capital Management’s Defined Outcome ETFs – which includes their Buffer ETFs. These products are currently available on SIMON’s centralized platform for “risk-managed… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 8:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Exchange-traded fund provider Reality Shares announced earlier this week it has closed the exchange-traded fund “Reality Shares DIVS ETF” (NYSE: DIVY). Reality Shares reported that it will halt trading in the Fund’s shares before the open of trading on September 22nd. The Fund is… Read More

July 1, 2020 @ 2:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Fintech unicorn SoFi announced on Wednesday the availability of its relaunched exchange-traded fund (ETF), the SoFi 50 ETF, which is now indexed to reflect the most popular equities among SoFi members. According to SoFi, The relaunched SoFi 50 ETF now tracks the performance, before… Read More

February 27, 2020 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has posted a statement dissenting from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to, once again, decline to allow an exchange-traded product (ETP or ETF) for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The Commission denied NYSE Arca’s request to offer a Bitcoin… Read More

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

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 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

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 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

October 24, 2018 @ 1:00 pm By Matthew Sullivan  |  

The crypto community is chomping at the bit for the SEC to approve an ETF for Bitcoin, and rightly so. For the uninitiated, an ETF (exchange traded fund) is a common investment vehicle, an index fund which tracks various stock market indexes and trades like… Read More

August 24, 2018 @ 11:14 am By Cali Haan  |  

An SEC decision to disapprove the listing of several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) has been stayed pending review. Commissioner Hester Pierce announced the stay yesterday on Twitter. The SEC had ruled the day before to deny a rule change… Read More

June 6, 2018 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

VanEck, a New York based asset manager, has announced it will partner with SolidX to list a “physically-backed bitcoin ETF” (exchange traded fund). The proposed ETF will be insured against loss or theft of bitcoin. VanEck was first to file for a 40-Act Bitcoin ETF… Read More