Standard Chartered Opens UK Branch for Institutional Crypto Trading
The financial giant Standard Chartered is set to enable institutional clients to directly trade bitcoin and ethereum on its existing platforms, with plans to introduce non-deliverable forwards for digital assets soon.
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Standard Chartered has announced it will enable institutional clients to directly trade bitcoin ( BTC) and ether ( ETH) through its United Kingdom (U.K.) branch, marking it as the first so-called global systemically important bank (G-SIB) to offer such direct cryptocurrency services.