CHICAGO, 31 OCTOBER 201 /CME GROUP/ – CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it intends to launch bitcoin futures in the fourth quarter of 2017, pending all relevant regulatory review periods. The new contract will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference

LONDON, 6 September 2016 /CRYPTO FACILITIES/ – London-based Crypto Facilities which operates a trading platform for digital assets and is the first provider of regulated Futures on bitcoin, today announced a $1.5m seed round led by Pamir Gelenbe’s AngelList syndicate with participation from Playfair Capital, Digital Currency Group, String

CHICAGO, 2 May 2016 /CME GROUP/ – CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it will collaborate with Crypto Facilities Ltd., a digital assets trading platform, to develop two new products planned to launch in the fourth quarter of 2016: CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate

LONDON, 29 FEBRUARY 2016 /CRYPTO FACILITIES/ – Crypto Facilities is excited to announce a partnership with Ripple, a provider of global financial settlement solutions, to create a marketplace for XRP derivatives. Banks, market makers and traders are holding XRP in significant size and will be able to use the new market

LONDON, 07 AUGUST 2015 /REUTERS/ – Armed with a doctorate in financial engineering, 34-year-old Timo Schlaefer was on his way to a promising career at Goldman Sachs in London. Previously with the bank’s mergers and acquisitions team, he became an executive director of credit quantitative modeling at Goldman, where quants

LONDON, 10 JULY 2015 /TRADERS MAGAZINE/ – Two firms have joined together to bring standardization to bitcoin trading, clearing and settlement. Bitcoin analytics and security firm Elliptic and bitcoin derivatives exchange Crypto Facilities announced their union and development of a settlement and clearing mechanism that separates bitcoin custody from all other

LONDON, 09 JULY 2015 /WATERS TECHNOLOGY/ – Crypto Facilities, a Bitcoin derivatives exchange, and Elliptic, a Bitcoin analytics and security firm, announced a partnership that will make the settlement and clearing mechanism of the exchange separate from its other functions. The exchange’s client accounts will be hosted in vaults and

NEW YORK, 09 JULY 2015 /COINDESK/ – Two London-based bitcoin startups have unveiled a new system that ‘ring-fences’ customer funds from other operations. As part of the set up, derivatives trading platform Crypto Facilities will continue to match buyers and sellers, but its partner, Elliptic, will take custody of the platform’

LONDON, 26 FEBRUARY 2015 /BITCOIN MAGAZINE/ – Crypto Facilities Ltd., a London-based broker founded by former Goldman Sachs Executive Director Timo Schlaefer, has announced the launch of its bitcoin derivatives trading platform. In financial jargon, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity,

LONDON, 25 FEBRUARY 2015 /CNBC/ – The nascent industry of bitcoin derivatives got a high-profile boost on Wednesday, as a London-based trading platform was launched by ex-employees of some of the world’s leading investment banks. Crypto Facilities was set up by former bankers from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas

LONDON, 24 FEBRUARY 2015 /CRYPTO FACILITIES/ – Crypto Facilities Ltd, a London-based broker, announced today the launch of its bitcoin derivatives trading platform www.cryptofacilities.com. The platform initially hosts a Forward contract on the USD price of bitcoin. The Forward serves to hedge against bitcoin volatility or to benefit from