THELOGICALINDIAN - Regulated cryptocurrency barter Itbit appear today that it has accustomed approval from the New York State Department of Financial Casework to add added cryptocurrencies to its artefact offerings The aggregation will activate alms aegis escrow OTC trading and barter casework for BCH ETH LTC and XLM in accession to its absolute BTC offerings
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Approval by the NYDFS
Itbit appear on Thursday, June 14, that it will alpha alms several new articles based on cryptocurrencies added than BTC. The New York-based aggregation wrote:
Previously alone BTC articles were available. Itbit COO Andrew Chang commented, “by accepting this authoritative approval, we are now able to accessible the doors for individuals and institutions to admission crypto assets above aloof bitcoin.”
Itbit became the aboriginal bitcoin barter to be accepted a cyberbanking authorization by the NYDFS in May 2015. The authorization allows the barter to accomplish in all 50 U.S. states beneath the New York cyberbanking laws, CEO Chad Cascarilla explained at the time.
Itbit’s Product Offerings
Itbit’s website outlines several casework such as crypto exchange, OTC trading, and aegis services. “US dollars are FDIC-insured and all authorization and bitcoin chump assets are absolutely adequate and backed by binding basic reserves,” the aggregation details. For OTC trading, the minimum advance is 25 BTC.
The barter additionally offers escrow transactions. While “Itbit acts as the abettor to accommodate a barter amid two parties and conducts settlement” in OTC trading, it “acts as a aloof affair to achieve a barter brought advanced by an abettor or buyer/seller mandate” in escrow transactions.
At the end of May, Itbit’s operator, Paxos, appear that it had aloft $65 million. Part of the funds aloft will be acclimated to accomplish the Itbit barter and babysitter service, CEO and co-founder Charles Cascarilla said at the time.
Last week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reportedly accepted trading abstracts from Itbit and three added crypto exchanges back bitcoin futures provided by CME Group, which it regulates, acquire their amount from them.
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