Japan’s Largest Bank Now Offers Bitcoin Derivatives

  • Nomura Holdings, Japan’s largest brokerage, now offers bitcoin-based derivatives.
  • Available derivative contracts are non-deliverable forward and options, as well as futures and options contracts.
  • Nomura’s economic consulting arm Nomura Research Institute launched a crypto-asset index in 2020.

Nomura Holdings Inc, Japan’s largest brokerage and investment bank, began trading bitcoin derivatives contracts to its Asian clients after a rise in institutional demand “significantly” increased, according to a report from Bloomberg.

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