Payward, the parent company of U.S. centralized exchange Kraken, announced today, April 17, that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bitnomial, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-regulated crypto derivatives exchange.
Bitnomial was founded in 2014 and over more than a decade of operations has acquired the full set of CFTC licenses — exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage — becoming what Kraken says is the first crypto company in the United States to do so.
The deal brings Bitnomial's regulatory infrastructure together with Payward's global distribution across Kraken, NinjaTrader, and its other projects.
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