Merrill Lynch Bars Trading of Bitcoin Fund, Futures – WSJ
Exchanges, Flexslider January 3, 2018 , by Steel Rose Comments Off on Merrill Lynch Bars Trading of Bitcoin Fund, Futures – WSJ 198Merrill Lynch has blocked clients and financial advisers who trade on their behalf from buying bitcoin, citing concerns over the cryptocurrency’s investment suitability.The ban applies to all accounts and precludes the firm’s roughly 17,000 advisers not only from pitching bitcoin-related investments but also from executing client requests to trade the Grayscale Investment Trust bitcoin fund, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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