{"id":20186,"date":"2019-04-29T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6bb0042697"},"modified":"2019-04-29T13:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:57:36","slug":"report-e-trade-finalizing-its-crypto-trading-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/report-e-trade-finalizing-its-crypto-trading-platform","title":{"rendered":"Report: E-Trade is Finalizing its Crypto Trading Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/report-e-trade-is-finalizing-its-crypto-trading-platform.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>New York-based online brokerage firm E-Trade Financial Corp. has plans to launch trading services for digital assets, <em>Bloomberg<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-26\/e-trade-is-said-to-be-close-to-launching-cryptocurrency-trading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>. Bitcoin and ether will be the first assets to be supported by E-Trade\u2019s crypto trading service, but the firm has plans to list other assets in the future. This announcement comes on the heels of a report that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SatoshiLite\/status\/1120691824081793024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TD Ameritrade<\/a> is testing crypto trading on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanielpopper\/status\/1121868559330598912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> by New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper suggests that E-Trade is bowing to the pressure of its competitors, as a deluge of traditional financial service providers seem to be rushing into the crypto trading industry.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the brokerage opened up access to <a href=\"https:\/\/us.etrade.com\/what-we-offer\/investment-choices\/futures#tab2_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bitcoin futures<\/a> trading from CME Group to its customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin and ether will be the first assets to be supported by E-Trade\u2019s crypto trading service, but the firm has plans to list other assets in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":20187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[867,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-20186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-futures","9":"tag-trading"},"author_data":{"id":3435,"name":"Jimmy Aki","nicename":"jimmy-aki","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jimmy-aki-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/report-e-trade-is-finalizing-its-crypto-trading-platform.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}