{"id":33451,"date":"2020-12-16T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33451"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:53:16","slug":"japanese-banking-giant-sbi-holdings-acquires-otc-cryptocurrency-platform-b2c2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/japanese-banking-giant-sbi-holdings-acquires-otc-cryptocurrency-platform-b2c2\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese banking giant SBI Holdings acquires OTC cryptocurrency platform B2C2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese financial holding SBI Holdings has acquired the cryptocurrency over-the-counter (OTC) platform B2C2, aimed at institutional clients.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Looking forward to working alongside SBI to implement our vision for the future of financial markets \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/crypto?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#crypto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fintech?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fintech<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/innovation?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#innovation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/banking?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#banking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cyptofinance?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cyptofinance<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7f53sVUrGj\">https:\/\/t.co\/7f53sVUrGj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B2C2 (@B2C2Group) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/B2C2Group\/status\/1338952084637577216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, the financial conglomerate said it had bought a minority stake in B2C2 for $30 million. SBI clients gained access to the OTC platform, and representatives of the latter reported a fourfold increase in OTC trades and a tenfold rise in daily volumes.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal was carried out through SBI Financial Services, a subsidiary. The financial terms have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>B2C2 has operated since 2015 and markets itself as the oldest market-maker in the cryptocurrency market for institutions. In 2019 the company obtained authorization to operate bitcoin derivatives from the UK Financial Conduct Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, SBI Holdings <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sbi-holdings-acquires-the-taotao-cryptocurrency-exchange\">acquired the cryptocurrency exchange<\/a> TaoTao, which became part of the SBI Liquidity Market subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese financial holding SBI Holdings has become the owner of the over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency platform B2C2, aimed at institutional clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2066,1847],"class_list":["post-33451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-b2c2","tag-sbi-holdings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33453,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions\/33453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}