.Coinbase completed a $100 million transaction to test its proprietary trading efforts earlier this year, according to a report. By JamieCrawleyCD
The exchange hired at least four Wall Street traders to form a group called Coinbase Risk Solutions to use the firm's own cash to trade crypto, the report said.
Proprietary trading is when a firm engages in trading of stocks, bonds, currencies or commodities using its own money as opposed to that of its clients. Such activity is fraught with risk and the potential of conflicts of interest for the financial firm should its trades have an effect on the prices of those assets, which could in turn hurt its clients.
According to WSJ's report, a Coinbase spokeswoman said that its Risk Solutions group was formed to"facilitate client-driven crypto transactions," and and “conflict of interest mitigation tools and policies” were in place. “Our statements to Congress accurately reflect our actual business activities,...Coinbase does not, and has never, had a proprietary trading business. Any insinuation that we misled Congress is a wilful misrepresentation of the facts," she added.Read more:
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