BREAKDOWN: A $1.5T Asset Manager Is Getting Into Bitcoin
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
As bitcoin hits $50,000 again, more news of institutional adoption and mainstreaming.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
Today on the Brief:
- Binance dinged by Singapore authorities while discussing Binance.us going public
- Former CFTC Chair Giancarlo leaves BlockFi board of directors after only four months
- SEC takes action against … Bitconnect?
Our main discussion: Franklin Templeton has posted a job listing for a crypto trader, while Vast bank now offers bitcoin buying and selling directly from FDIC banking. NLW explores what’s next in the bitcoin market cycle.
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NYDIG, the institutional-grade platform for Bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have trusted relationships with hundreds of millions of customers, to offer Bitcoin. Learn more at NYDIG.com/NLW.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.8 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:05.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, September 2nd, and today we are talking about a $1.5 trillion |
| 1:18.6 | asset manager getting into Bitcoin and crypto, and also just an outlook on Bitcoin in general. |
| 1:24.6 | But first, let's start with the brief. |
| 1:27.5 | And the theme of the day is definitely institutionalization and integration. |
| 1:32.9 | Let's start the brief with the latest in the saga of Binance, and first the rough. |
| 1:38.2 | The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued an investor alert for Binance. |
| 1:42.4 | This comes as a follow-up to their statement in July |
| 1:44.5 | that said that they were reviewing Binance's Singapore entity, which at the time had a licensing |
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