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Crypto Market Maker Portofino Technologies Has Big Plans For 2025

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Portofino Technologies, a Switzerland-based crypto market making firm, has big plans for 2025, the company’s CEO Leonard Lancia told CoinDesk in an exclusive interview.

The crypto market maker is exploring opening new offices in both New York and Singapore, Lancia said.

The firm is regulated in the U.K., Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands, and has plans to expand its licensing under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. MiCA came into effect on Dec. 30 last year.

Portofino has made a number of senior hires in recent months. Dipak Shah has joined the company as its head of over-the-counter (OTC) trading, based in London.

Shah joined from Japanese investment bank Nomura, where he was employed as head of FX options trading. He previously worked at Wall Street banks Citi (C) and Goldman Sachs (GS).

«While clients and liquidity provision remain our number one priority we have and want to make investments in trading and technology talent to build and scale our business,» Shah said in emailed comments.

Portofino wants to be a dominant player across its three core business segments: electronic market making, OTC trading and token services.

«We have already hired many high calibre individuals in London, with further expansion planned in Asia and New York in terms of trading personnel,» Shah added.

Portofino was founded by two former Citadel Securities leaders Leonard Lancia and Alex Casimo in 2021. It raised $50 million in equity funding in late 2022.

The firm was responsible for over $100 billion in trading volume in 2024, it said.

The company is rebuilding after suffering a number of departures last year, as reported by CoinDesk.

Read more: FCA-Regulated Crypto Trading Firm Portofino Technologies Sees Staff Exodus

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Coinbase Outpaces S&P 500 With 43% June Rise as Stablecoin Narrative Grows: CNBC

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Shares of Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) rose 43% this month, making the firm the top performer in the S&P 500 since it joined the index at the end of last month.

June’s run is already the stock’s best since November and caps three straight monthly gains. Coinbase’s shares reached their highest level since their public debut.

COIN hit a $382 high this week before enduring a slight correction, ending the week at $353 and seeing a slight 0.7% drop in after-hours trading to $351.

The wider S&P 500 index rose roughly 5% in June as geopolitical tensions eased.

Washington’s progress on the GENIUS Act, Congress’s first rulebook for dollar-pegged stablecoins, helped shift investor focus from trading fees to stablecoin revenue.

The bill brightened the outlook for Circle, whose shares hit a record high and saw its market cap near that of Coinbase this week.

Coinbase keeps all yield on USDC balances held on its platform and nearly half of other USDC income, equal to about 99 percent of Circle’s revenue, giving shareholders indirect exposure at no added cost, CNBC reported Friday, citing analysts including Citizens’ head of financial technology research Devin Ryan.

Trading, however, remains subdued. Average daily volume on Coinbase has drifted lower since April.

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Robinhood Launches Micro Bitcoin, Solana and XRP Futures Contracts

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Robinhood (HOOD) has introduced micro futures on bitcoin (BTC), solana (SOL) and XRP in the United States., expanding its existing crypto futures offering for its nearly 26 million funded accounts.

Micro contracts need far less collateral than full-size futures, letting traders take directional positions while committing a smaller slice of capital.

The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on a cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.

The launch rounds out a futures suite that began with BTC and ETH in January. It also comes weeks after the firm closed its $200 million purchase of Bitstamp and finalized a $179 million deal for Canada’s WonderFi.

Robinhood’s data shows that crypto notional volumes have exploded upward over time, reaching $11.7 billion in May. The figure marks a 36% rise month-over-month, and a 65% growth year-over-year.

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Why is XRP Up Today? Trio of Catalysts Sees Token Outperform Wider Crypto Market

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XRP climbed 5.5% to $2.19 in the last 24 hours after a trio of catalysts converged to help the cryptocurrency outperform the wider cryptocurrency market.

One of the catalysts was launch of XRP micro futures on Robinhood. The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on the cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.

Regulatory fog also thinned. On Friday, Ripple withdrew its cross-appeal in its long-running U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit. The SEC sued Ripple back in 2020 over its XRP sales, alleging these violated securities laws. The SEC is expected to drop its own appeal, leaving last year’s ruling, ordering Ripple to pay a $125 million civil penalty to the SEC, intact. The move could lift a lid that had kept some investors on the sidelines.

On-chain data rounded out the bullish setup. The XRP Ledger logged over a 1.1 million active addresses over the past week according to crypto analyst Ali Martinez, who cited Glassnode data.

XRP’s rise saw it outperform the wider crypto market, with the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index rising 1.7% in the last 24 hours.

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