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Markets

Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust Is Now Open to More Investors as SEC Reporting Company

The trust’s shares are now registered under the Exchange Act of 1934, making the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust the first cryptocurrency investment vehicle to become a reporting company.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Consensus: Invest 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

What It Takes to Get a Crypto-Friendly Bank Charter in Wyoming

An SPDI charter offered in Wyoming lets U.S. firms offer banking and custody services under a regulator that’s not the FDIC, but the application and capital requirements are as rigorous as launching a de novo state-chartered bank.

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Markets

PwC Switzerland Incorporates ChainSecurity Team to Expand Blockchain Audit Tools

Officially, it’s not an acquisition. But seven technical engineers are joining the accounting firm to bolster its smart contract auditing abilities.

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Finance

BlockFi Adds Litecoin, USDC to Its Lending Product Suite

The initial annual percentage yield will be 8.6 percent for USDC and 3.78 percent for litecoin.

BlockFi CEO Zac Prince

Policy

Crypto Custodians Grapple With Germany's New Rules

While a grandfather clause allows crypto custodians to keep serving German customers without being penalized, those same companies are waiting on financial regulator BaFin to release final regulations around the law.

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Policy

Crypto Firms Can Now Apply for a License in France

The license is optional for crypto firms operating in France, but firms can use the license in marketing themselves to institutional clients.

French flag image via Shutterstock

Finance

Why the SEC Asked Blockforce Capital to Pull a Bitcoin ETF Proposal as Soon as It Was Filed

Reality Shares ETF Trust, a branch of Blockforce Capital, filed an ETF proposal under the condition that it would pull the proposal after one day.

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Finance

Fidelity Exec Predicts Crypto Custodians Will White-Label Their Services

Fidelity Digital Assets envisions a future where custodians work behind the scenes to store cryptocurrency for other firms’ clients, an exec said.

Christine Sandler (second from right) at an American Banker conference in 2018, photo by Marc Hochstein for CoinDesk

Markets

Accenture Will Board Corporates Onto Marco Polo Shipping Blockchain

Accenture plans to help TradeIX create new use cases beyond banking for buyers and sellers within trade finance after backing the Marco Polo tech partner.

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Markets

Top 10 US Retail Banks Unknowingly Serve Crypto Startups, CipherTrace Claims

CipherTrace revealed research Monday showing that the top 10 retail banks by assets managed in the U.S. worked with unregistered crypto money services businesses by transmitting funds on their payment networks.

CipherTrace Chief Financial Analyst John Jefferies image via CipherTrace