Standard Chartered, Fidelity, TP ICAP Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Platform – News Bitcoin News
Fidelity, Standard Chartered Bank and TP ICAP work together to launch a cryptocurrency trading platform. It will provide a marketplace for spot crypto trading and provide “connectivity and post-trade infrastructure into a network of digital asset custodians”.
- TP ICAP, a leading provider of market infrastructure, announced on Tuesday the launch of a cryptocurrency trading platform in partnership with Fidelity Digital Assets, Zodia Custody and Flow Traders.
- The new platform is subject to registration with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
- It “will provide a wholesale electronic marketplace for spot cryptoasset trading, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as providing connectivity and post-trade infrastructure to a network of digital asset custodians,” the announcement said.
- TP ICAP launched its digital asset business in 2019, which enables clients to trade crypto derivative products.
- Simon Forster, Co-Head of Digital Assets at TP ICAP, commented:
Customer demand for trading spot cryptoassets is substantial and growing, with interest coming from our traditional customer base in the various asset classes in which we operate.
- Flow Traders, who have been providing liquidity to crypto markets since 2016, will be one of the first liquidity providers on this new platform.
- Zodia Custody is an institutional digital asset custodian created by Standard Chartered Bank to meet the need for a digital asset custodian that really understands custody.
- The announcement notes:
The platform has already started onboarding customers and will be launched in the second half of the year.
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