They likewise revealed a collaboration in between B2C2 and SBI Financial Services, the latest example of more institutionally-focused crypto-currency players connecting up with incumbent institutions to offer extra services to satisfy their clients more complex requirements.
On the other hand, Japanese brokerages, like SBI, are looking for new sources of earnings, as an economic downturn has hit their core earnings stream of regional retail traders.
SBI will utilize B2C2s liquidity to support its clients trading cryptocurrencies, while B2C2 will tap SBIs resources, specifically its balance sheet, to release a full prime brokerage for both crypto and other possession classes, Max Boonen B2C2s founder said in an interview.
Prime brokers offer services to hedge funds and other active trading companies but Boonan said that partially due to the fact that of the absence of access to funds, some common prime brokerage services like cleaning and funding were under-developed in the cryptocurrency market.
He added, “We dont want to restrict ourselves to crypto. Crypto is the thing we do because that was how we started, … were keeping our eyes on the prize which is that the [prime brokerage] market is a 20 billion yearly income market,” he stated.
B2C2 presently supplies liquidity to banks, hedge funds and exchanges.
It currently has a licence to operate in Japan, which has among the worlds most established crypto currency markets, and regulative frameworks.
Yoshitaka Kitao, President and CEO of SBI Holdings, said in the B2C2 declaration that SBI would work to establish innovative brand-new crypto items.
A sepatate SBI statement stated that it would get a stake in B2C2.
( This story remedies very first paragrapah to has actually concurred to buy, not has actually bought).
Reporting by Alun John, additional reporting by Takashi Umekawa in Tokyo; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore.
FILE PHOTO: Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO of SBI Holdings Inc., speaks at the Reuters Global Wealth Management Summit in Tokyo October 6, 2009. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
HONG KONG/TOKYO (Reuters) – An unit of Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings (8473. T) has actually consented to buy a minority stake in London-based cryptocurrency marketmaker B2C2 for $30 million, B2C2 stated in a declaration on Wednesday.
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He added, “We dont desire to limit ourselves to crypto.
