THELOGICALINDIAN - Fresh from commutual its beginning allotment annular Bakkt appear its aboriginal accretion on Monday Jan 14 2024 The babe aggregation of the Intercontinental Exchange ICE is additionally eyeing the achievability of accretion above the US market
Bakkt Acquires RCG Back Office
Bakkt announced the account of the accretion via a Medium column by CEO, Kelly Loeffler. According to the blog post, the aggregation is accepting some assets of Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), a longstanding absolute futures agency merchant.
According to Loeffler, the accord should be accomplished by February. Back in December 2018, Marex Spectron, the Commodity Brokerage close acquired RCG’s chump business. The Bakkt CEO says the accord with RCG is for the acquirement of assets accompanying to its platform.
In an account with Fortune, the Bakkt CEO said:
Commenting on the accent of the acquisition, Loeffler said that it added the platforms ability beyond accident administration and treasury operations.
To this end, Loeffler insists that the accretion isn’t tailored to institutional needs alone. According to the Bakkt CEO, the move has immense allowances for its customer business as well.
Not Standing Still
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is yet to accept for Bakkt to activate trading its Bitcoin futures. However, Loeffler says the aggregation isn’t cat-and-mouse about for approval as the aggregation continues to assignment abaft the scene.
Initially set for barrage in January 2019, letters say the accepted U.S. government abeyance will push the launch to ‘early 2019.’
Nevertheless, Bitcoinist reported that the aggregation aloft $182.5 actor in its aboriginal allotment annular from arresting investors like Microsoft at the end of December.
While cat-and-mouse for CFTC approval, Bakkt is reportedly eyeing authoritative appropriate to markets alfresco the United States. According to Loeffler, the belvedere is in talks with authoritative agencies alfresco the country.
Meanwhile, the aggregation continues to reiterate that the accepted bazaar altitude do not abnormally appulse its plans. Loeffler noted:
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