# Fidelity News

Coinbase, a leading United States-based cryptocurrency exchange is rumoured to be interested in acquiring Xapo, a Hong Kong-based firm providing highly secure bitcoin custodial services to institutional investors via its cold storage vaults, for about $50 million, reports The Block on May 16, 2019. Coinbase Interested in Xapo Per sources...

PayPal’s ambivalent stance over the digital currency might be changing as CFO John Rainey has stated that the payment processor has created teams to study both blockchain and cryptocurrency, as reported by Forbes on May 10, 2019. PayPal previously allowed merchants to receive payments in Bitcoin but removed functionality after...

The price of bitcoin rallied by over nine percent week-on-week despite the revelations that market-leading stablecoin USDT is not fully backed by US dollars as we were made to believe. On Sunday evening, BTC/USD traded at $5,785.  The Big Stories At the start of last week, Tether finally admitted to...

Multi-trillion asset management firm Fidelity Investments could launch its cryptocurrency trading service very soon. Citing sources in the know, Bloomberg reported on May 6, 2019, that the Wall Street juggernaut could launch its bitcoin trading service “within a few weeks.” Aiming for the Big Shots Fidelity’s cryptocurrency trading service will...

New York-based financial assets trading platform E*Trade is poised to offer cryptocurrency trading services, sources told Bloomberg, April 27, 2019. E*Trade to Make Entry into Volatile Crypto Industry Per sources in the know of the matter, E*Trade will begin its operations by offering bitcoin (BTC) and ether-based crypto (ETH) products....