Cboe world Markets, the primary to launch bitcoin futures, would really like the Securities and Exchange Commission to permit cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds.
"Cboe encourages the Commission to approach Cryptocurrency ETPs [exchange-traded products] holistically and from constant perspective that it's traditionally approached commodity-related ETPs," the derivatives exchange aforesaid Fri during a letter to the SEC, revealed on-line Mon.
"The Commission shouldn't sub the manner of such ETPs coming back to market" given Cboe's arguments for addressing the SEC's considerations, the letter aforesaid.
The SEC failed to forthwith answer a CNBC request Tuesday for a investigate the letter. Separately, the commission aforesaid Fri it might begin the method of decisive whether or not it'll permit stock exchange mollusk genus to list 2 ProShares funds trailing bitcoin futures.
In January, Dalia Blass, director of the SEC's division of investment management, pushed back against various applications for bitcoin-related ETFs. during a letter to 2 U.S. trade teams, Blass aforesaid the merchandise have nonetheless to deal with problems like extreme worth volatility in cryptocurrencies and liquidity in connected funds.
Friday's letter from Cboe President and COO Chris Concannon was written to Blass in response to her letter.
"While Cboe shares several of the considerations raised within the employees Letter, we have a tendency to believe that the overwhelming majority of those considerations is self-addressed among the prevailing framework for commodity-related funds associated with valuation, liquidity, custody, arbitrage, and manipulation," Concannon aforesaid.
He aforesaid Cboe expects commerce volumes in bitcoin futures markets to shortly reach levels "comparable to those of different artifact futures merchandise at the time that they were enclosed in ETPs." Concannon extra that "Cboe has undertaken important measures to notice and stop manipulation within the bitcoin forward market."
Cboe became the primary major exchange to launch bitcoin futures on Dec. ten and applied later that month with the SEC to list six bitcoin-related exchange-traded funds. CME, the world's largest commodities exchange, launched bitcoin futures one week once Cboe, prod expectations that a lot of institutional investors would invest the trend of soaring interest in cryptocurrencies.
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