Tagged: fidelity digital assets

May 25, 2023 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TP ICAP Group, a provider of market infrastructure, announces that Fusion Digital Assets – its marketplace for spot cryptoassets – is now live and has successfully completed its first XBTUSD pairs trade with the associated settlement processed by Fidelity Digital Assets. Fusion Digital Assets is… Read More

August 21, 2021 @ 6:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockstream, a Bitcoin-focused firm, has released its Markets Weekly Report, dated  August 20, 2021. As noted in the report from Blockstream, Bitcoin is currently on pace “to finish on the top end of this week’s range for the fifth weekly win in… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Seven in 10 institutional investors are now expecting to purchase or invest in digital assets in the future, and over 90% of those interested in these financial instruments expect to have an allocation in their institution’s or clients’ portfolios “within the next five years.” This,… Read More

February 20, 2021 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zac Prince, CEO and Co-founder at BlockFi, a fast-growing digital assets platform, notes that with just two weeks in, the company’s Bitcoin trust is just ”a pinch” under the $100 million mark (in total BTC holdings). 2 weeks in, BlockFi’s Bitcoin trust is just a… Read More

June 14, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Henri Arslanian, the Global Crypto Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), notes that many analysts have been attempting to predict the Bitcoin (BTC) price. This, after we’ve seen record leves of quantitative easing from reserve banks across the world, increased retail adoption of digital currencies and platforms,… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Almost 80% of institutional investors say that digital assets could be a worthwhile investment, according to a survey of 800 US and European financial institutions conducted by trillion-dollar asset manager Fidelity. Fidelity’s survey revealed that more than a third of these institutions have already invested… Read More

April 10, 2020 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fidelity Digital Assets, the cryptocurrency division of Fidelity, a multi-trillion dollar asset manager, is reportedly planning to expand its range of products and services. The firm’s decision to introduce new services has come at a time when it has been experiencing  a significant increase in… Read More

February 21, 2020 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT), which is a part of Fidelity Labs, the financial giant’s incubator for Fintech startups, is reportedly looking for Bitcoin (BTC) mining engineers for a “new business opportunity.”  The proposal has been put forward by the team working at… Read More

January 15, 2020 @ 1:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto investment arm of Fidelity Investments, a Boston, Massachusetts-based multinational financial services corporation with over $2.4 trillion of assets under management, is planning to offer custody services for Bitcoin (BTC) held by UK-based cryptocurrency investment company Nickel Digital Asset Management. Established… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 12:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) is “now engaged in a full rollout” of custody and trading services for crypto assets. Boston, Massachusetts-based Fidelity Investments, a multinational financial services firm with over $2.8 trillion in assets under management, is expanding its crypto platform from the limited… Read More

September 30, 2019 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Los Angeles-based Wave Financial has introduced a cryptocurrency derivatives-based yield fund, called the Wave Bitcoin (BTC) Income and Growth Digital Fund. The fund will issue tokens based on cryptographic technologies that are similar to those used for issuing and transferring blockchain-based currencies, according to a… Read More

May 6, 2019 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Fidelity, the mega mutual fund company that is entering the crypto sector, shared a survey last week quantifying institutional participation in digital assets. In a release, Fidelity said that 22% of institutional investors have exposure to digital assets with 40% expressing interest in the coming… Read More

October 15, 2018 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fidelity, a nearly seventy year old financial firm with $7.2 trillion in assets under management, announced its entry into blockchain based finance today with the launch of Fidelity Digital Assets. The vision is to offer institutional quality trading in crypto while providing a superior level … Read More

October 15, 2018 @ 6:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fidelity Investments, perhaps best known for its ubiquitous mutual funds, is getting into crypto. Fidelity believes that distributed ledger technologies, aka blockchain, can enable entirely new business models, lead to the creation of frictionless capital markets and improve existing financial market infrastructure. Fidelity can envision… Read More