Bitcoin Fund Launches On Dubai Bourse In Mideast First
Muhammad Irfan Published June 23, 2021 | 05:30 PM
Dubai, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Jun, 2021 ) :The middle East's first bitcoin fund launched on the Dubai bourse on Wednesday, with Canadian digital asset manager 3iQ Corp seeking to raise around $200 million in the offering.
Created in 2008 as an alternative to traditional currencies, bitcoin is the world's most popular virtual unit, but its price has slumped recently due to fresh crack down on cryptocurrencies.
"3iQ Corp., Canada's largest digital asset investment fund manager... today officially listed The Bitcoin Fund on Nasdaq Dubai, the region's international exchange," the bourse said in a statement.
It said that "this fund is the world's first regulated major Bitcoin fund to be listed on the capital markets in the Middle East North Africa region".
"Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day around the world, and in Canada we trade around North American market times and Dubai is almost perfectly opposite of (those) trading hours," 3iQ Corp chief executive Fred Pye told Bloomberg Television.
"We think if the market holds up for the next few months while we get the listing going, we expect to probably be quite far north of ($200 million)."
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