Some two years after TP ICAP founded its Digital Assets arm and on the eve of the launch of that divisions crypto-trading platform, Simon Forster, the co-head of TP ICAP Digital Assets, tracks the evolution of the firm.

TP ICAP is launching a wholesale electronic marketplace for spot cryptoasset trading and providing connectivity to digital asset custodians as the market infrastructure provider said the financial industry is going through a secular shift similar to electronification.

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - TP ICAP (TCAPI.L), the world's biggest interdealer broker, is launching a cryptocurrency trading platform with Fidelity Investments and Standard Chartered's digital assets custody unit, the consortium said on Tuesday.

We have been receiving a lot of enquiries and questions regarding Bitcoin over the last few months from clients and colleagues alike. As such we wanted to do a specific piece regarding this new asset, something that we hope some of you find interesting and informative. After forcing itself into the public domain with its spectacular 2017 price appreciation and arguably more spectacular collapse at the start of 2018 where is Bitcoin today?