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Finance

BitGo Receives NYDFS Approval for New York Trust Charter

The firm plans to offer New York banks crypto custody as a service.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe

Finance

BitGo Reveals $250M in Bitcoin Holdings, Signaling More Crypto-Native Disclosures Ahead

The crypto custodian has had bitcoin on its own balance sheet since 2014, CEO Mike Belshe told CoinDesk.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe (right) speaks at Consensus: Invest 2019.

Markets

KPMG, BitGo, Coin Metrics Launch New Offering to Drive Institutional Adoption

One of the "big four" professional services firms has launched a product suite with two other cryptocurrency firms with an eye on serving institutional demand in crypto.

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Finance

BitGo Taps Former Coinbase Exec Jeff Horowitz as Chief Compliance Officer

Jeff Horowitz led Coinbase’s global compliance program until his departure in October.

BitGo Chief Compliance Officer Jeff Horowitz

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Markets

Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Outpaced Minting for the First Time in December

BitGo “unwrapped” over 11,600 WBTC last month.

Wrapped Bitcoin mints and burns in December

Markets

BitGo Launches Wrapped Bitcoin, Ether on Tron Blockchain

Nearly 100 DeFi-friendly WBTC have already been minted as TRC-20 tokens on Tron.

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Markets

BitGo to Pay $93K to US Treasury to Settle 183 'Apparent' Sanctions Violations

BitGo failed to stop people in Cuba, Iran and Syria, among other sanctioned places, from using its non-custodial wallet service, the U.S. said.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe

Markets

PayPal Talks to Buy Crypto Firm BitGo Have Ended, Other Targets Eyed: Report

The CEO would not confirm whether his company was ever in talks with PayPal, saying BitGo is "in talks with everyone."

PayPal

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Finance

How BitGo Is Getting Into the Events Business

BitGo has added cap intro services, a kind of marketing activity carried out among hedge fund investors, to its crypto brokerage offering.

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Markets

Wrapped Bitcoin ‘Burns’ Increase as Traders Rotate Capital Out of Cooling DeFi

WBTC burns picked up in November, continuing into December.

WBTC burns in 2020