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Bank of America Reportedly Approves Bitcoin Futures Trading

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Bank of America Reportedly Approves Bitcoin Futures Trading

The Bank of America has reportedly launched a new service enabling some of its clients to trade Bitcoin futures.

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After years of bashing Bitcoin, one of America’s largest banking establishments – Bank of America – seems to have completed its 180-turn. The organization has purportedly approved the trading of BTC futures.

  • Citing two sources familiar with the matter, CoinDesk reported that the Wall Street behemoth will enable some of its customers to trade BTC futures.

  • The plan to allow only a handful of clients to access the new service is because of the large amount of margin required to trade futures.

  • One of the sources went even further, indicating that some customers may have already started interacting with the primary cryptocurrency through BofA’s platform, which will use CME futures.

  • This development comes just a week after another report saying that the giant banking organization had set up a designated research team focusing on the cryptocurrency industry.

  • It’s worth noting that the bank was among the most vocal critiques of Bitcoin in the past. Earlier this year, it published a paper in which it claimed that BTC had failed as a store of value because it was “too volatile and impractical.”

  • A few years back, Bank of America blocked clients from trading and operating with any investment options related to BTC.

  • Shortly after CoinDesk’s report went live, the price of bitcoin suddenly spiked by $1,000 – from it’s intraday low of $31,000 to $32,000.

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