The subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has obtained a U.K. license allowing it to operate its derivatives platform in the EU.
The U.K FCA has authorized CF Benchmarks as a Benchmark Administrator under EU regulation coming into effect in January.
Data from the Winklevoss-founded exchange Gemini is being added to eight crypto indices offered by CF Benchmarks, including its CME offerings.
Kraken's Crypto Facilities has seen trading volumes in litecoin and bitcoin cash futures surge five-fold in recent weeks.
Crypto Facilities, which provides futures data to CME, saw its own trading volume jump five-fold after being acquired by Kraken.
U.K.-based cryptocurrency futures exchange Crypto Facilities is adding a bitcoin cash product to its offerings.
A month after listing ethereum-based futures for trading, U.K exchange Crypto Facilities is now launching a derivative product for litecoin.
Derivatives exchange operator CME Group and U.K. firm Crypto Facilities are partnering to create an ether reference rate and real time index.
The CME Group is launching two previously announced bitcoin price benchmarks next month.
Digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities has raised $1.5m in new funding.
Derivatives marketplace CME Group and Crypto Facilities have unveiled two bitcoin benchmarks designed to give investors a new way to hedge.
Two London bitcoin startups have unveiled a new system that "ring-fences" customer funds from other operations.
A former executive director of Goldman Sachs in London has launched a bitcoin derivatives exchange called Crypto Facilities.