Sentences with phrase «cryptocurrencies as an underlying asset»

France's financial markets regulator, the AMF, has announced that the ban on electronic advertising of forex and binary options products, also extends to the recently appeared derivatives with cryptocurrencies as an underlying asset.

According to the FSMA, some of these platforms also offer other financial products with cryptocurrencies as their underlying asset, such as savings accounts with promised guaranteed returns, servicing rights or derivative products such as CFDs.

Not exact matches

That said, products linked to the value of underlying digital assets, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, may be structured as securities products subject to registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Investment Company Act of 1940.

As cryptocurrencies tend to instability without an underlying asset, an upshot firm claims to have it both ways.

ICOs raise funds from the public using virtual currency (cryptocurrency) in exchange for their holders receiving proprietary coins or tokens related to a specific venture or project underlying the ICO, such as rights to profits, shares of assets, or rights to use certain services provided by the issuer or voting rights.

«We've come to understand that cryptocurrencies as an asset have exhibited clear and underlying resiliency and have integrated themselves as part of a diversified and balanced portfolio,» Robinhood CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev told CoinDesk.

Abra uses bitcoin as the underlying asset for extending your investment into other cryptocurrencies.

Warning that the use of bitcoins as an investment tool is limited because there is no underlying asset and the virtual currency is subject to high volatility, the central bank said speculators are at risk, as they would have no legal recourse if there is a loss of confidence in the cryptocurrency or if they are victims of theft from hackers.

GAIN offers cryptocurrency trading either as an over-the-counter (OTC) derivative or as a future, allowing traders to speculate on price movements without owning the underlying asset.

This company bills itself as an operating system for cryptocurrency assets, which exposes it to any ups and downs in the underlying majors — BTC, ETH and LTC.

«We've come to understand that cryptocurrencies as an asset have exhibited clear and underlying resiliency and have integrated themselves as part of a diversified and balanced portfolio,» Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev told CoinDesk.

The AMF began an inquiry into the legal definition of a cryptocurrency as both a derivative and an underlying asset after several online crypto trading platforms began offering binary options, contracts for difference (CFD), and Forex contracts where cryptocurrency was the underlying asset.

ESMA has stated that cryptocurrencies CFDs states that «CFDs with cryptocurrencies as an underlying raise separate and significant concerns as CFDs on other underlying» assets.

One significant weakness that the cryptocurrency world has is its dependence on bitcoin as an underlying asset.

First, being an underlying asset for derivative financial products listed on reputable exchanges such as the CBOE, and soon to be listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), will serve to legitimize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the eyes of those market participants that remain skeptical about the market.

With SOCIAL TRAVESTING as the invaluable underlying asset, CopyCashCoin («CCC») will bring a new wave in the cryptocurrency market!

The update comes «against a background of increased enquiries to BaFin regarding the areas of securities and asset management,» the note states, with potential ICO operators enquiring «whether the underlying tokens, coins or cryptocurrencies behind so - called ICOs are viewed as financial instruments within the area of securities supervision.»