Genesis Trading to Offer Savings Account Returns on This Crypto Exchange
Leading Digital Assets broker, Genesis, is entering into a partnership with a crypto exchange, Luno to offer interest-bearing products. The new range of financial products will act like a crypto savings bank account.
By this partnership, Genesis will be able to serve retail customers with banking services. The press release notes that,
The partnership creates savings accounts providing institutional-level interest rates to clients in traditional, emerging and frontier markets
Hence, customers will not only be able to invest and earn yield in crypto but also a variety of other investment products backed by equities and commodities.
A recent quarterly (Q2 2020) report from Genesis Trading records new highs with $7.5B in trades and new loan originations. Moreover, it suggests that the loans were primarily taken out for longing Bitcoin. According to the report, the active outstanding loans surged to over $1 billion, posting a 118% rise from Q2 2019.
The CEO of Genesis, Michael Moro, notes in the PR,
The interest customers can earn on their crypto is compelling. It presents an opportunity to speak to a wide audience that’s unfamiliar with crypto, and to offer them a very clear value proposition.”
This comes after the recent legal development in the space granting banking charter to crypto. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allowed regulated banking charted companies to offer crypto custody services. Even JPMorgan Chase who has been historically averse to cryptocurrencies provides support to crypto exchanges such as Gemini and Coinbase.
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Nivesh from Engineering Background is a full-time Crypto Analyst at Coingape. He is an atheist who believes in love and cultural diversity. He believes that Cryptocurrency is a necessity to deter corruption. He holds small amounts of cryptocurrencies. Faith and fear are two sides of the same coin. Follow him on Twitter at @nivishoes or mail him at nivesh(at)coingape.com Published at Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:20:11 +0000
