One of the largest international financial conglomerates Barclays intends to create a division in the cryptocurrency trading, focused on institutional investors. This writes the portal The ICO Journal, citing the statement made at today’s event, a certain hedge Fund.

This information was also confirmed by the former product Manager of Facebook, venture capitalist Anthony Pompliano with reference to 2 private source.

Just had two folks confirm this was true to me as well. Great work folks 🙂

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) 13 APR 2018

Twitter users already associate the jump in the exchange rate of bitcoin, what happened yesterday, with the upcoming announcement of Barclays.

Earlier in the week, Barclays analyst compared the bitcoin with infectious disease and suggested that the peak of popularity of cryptocurrencies in the past.

Earlier, Barclays made a deal with us exchange Coinbase, aimed at simplifying the process of working with cryptocurrencies for UK customers.

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