Bats Exchange is Fighting the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Rejection

Bats BZX Exchange has filed a petition to assessment a choice by the SEC to reject a bitcoin funding automobile proposed by buyers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

Filed on 17th March, the transfer is the first public try by an entity concerned in the Winkelvoss Bitcoin Trust effort to push for a assessment of its 10th March rejection, a choice that adopted three years of filings in an try to launch the product.

If permitted, the Winkelvoss Bitcoin Trust would have been the first exchange-traded fund to supply publicity to the digital currency to retail buyers. It would have listed on the Bats BZX Exchange, one in every of the largest US equities markets.

At the time, the SEC discovered that bitcoin’s market was maybe too immature to assist such a product, citing a scarcity of regulation and the potential danger for fraud.

Notably, the petition was filed beneath rule 430(b)(1) of the SEC’s Rules of follow.

According to the SEC’s web site, Rule 430(b)(1) permits events to file a discover of petition inside 5 days of the ruling (or inside 15 days of its publishing in the Federal Registrar), offered clear causes for the petition are given.

The rule goes on to state that the SEC, beneath this clause, could “affirm, reverse, modify, set aside or remand” the prior contested motion as a part of the assessment.

As famous in the submitting, Bats is now gearing as much as file extra paperwork.

The assertion reads:

“Bats intends to file separately a petition for review in accordance with Rule 430(b)(2) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rules of practice.”

At this time, it is unclear of how the objection may be acquired, or what the path ahead could also be for the proposed funding product, although the SEC may decline the request for assessment.

Representatives for Bats have been unable to be reached for remark.

Read the full statement right here.

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