Cryptocurrency trade operator Huobi has been granted a license from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Fee.
- British Virgin Islands-incorporated Huobi Know-how Holdings announced Thursday that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Huobi Asset Administration, had acquired approval to handle portfolios investing in digital property.
- Following the information, Huobi is now launching bitcoin (BTC, -2.43%), ethereum (ETH, -1.29%) and multi-strategy funds, according to Chinese language blogger Colin Wu.
- The brand new funds together with Huobi’s sizable ecosystem might deliver extra conventional Asian buyers into the cryptocurrency house, he stated.
- Wu raised as a possible problem that Huobi’s “founder can’t depart China and is underneath investigation.”
- Certainly, in January, a number of sources told CoinDesk a key govt was in custody with Chinese language police on account of an investigation associated to the trade’s over-the-counter buying and selling service.
