Switzerland's financial regulator FINMA has approved the first Swiss-law exchange-traded fund that lets retail investors hold Bitcoin directly. BIT Asset Management said its Bitcoin Fund ETF (BBIT) is expected to start trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange in November, with public offering limited to Switzerland. Unlike many European Bitcoin products, which are debt instruments carrying issuer risk, the fund is a Swiss collective investment scheme whose assets are kept separate from the management company. FINMA said this is the first approval of a fund investing only in Bitcoin, citing its trading history and higher trading volume compared with other cryptocurrencies, while stressing that Bitcoin remains highly volatile even when accessed through an approved ETF.
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| Sector | Layer 1 |
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