Bitpanda Considers Public Listing, Rules Out London as Destination: FT

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitpanda is "looking much closer" into a public listing than previously, co-founder Eric Demuth said in an interview with the Financial ￰0￱ ruled out London as a likely venue for a public market debut, despite the crypto exchange's recent expansion of ￰1￱ lack of liquidity in share trading is putting Vienna-based Bitpanda off seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), he said. "Currently, everybody's moving away from the LSE," Demut said. "Liquidity-wise, the LSE is not doing too well." He added that a listing in New York was more likely, based on the support by the U. S.

government's support for digital ￰2￱ month saw the New York Stock Exchange debut of crypto firm Bullish (BLSH), which operates the crypto exchange of the same name and is CoinDesk's parent ￰3￱ prominent companies such as stablecoin issuer Circle Interent (CRCL) and trading platform eToro (ETOR) have also debuted on the ￰4￱ markets this year. "The market is much more friendly right now ... so we're currently looking much closer into listing than we did before," Demuth ￰5￱ is also considering a Frankfurt listing given that the Austrian company makes most of its money in mainland ￰6￱ did not immediately respond to CoinDesk's request for further comment.