{"id":11850,"date":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2019\/01\/16\/bitcoin-futures-platform-bakkt-first-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"bitcoin-futures-platform-bakkt-first-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/bitcoin-futures-platform-bakkt-first-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Futures Platform Bakkt Announces First Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bakkt<\/a><\/strong>, the New York Stock Exchange-backed digital assets platform that was scheduled to launch this month on the 24th of January may not be doing so after all but that will not stop it from developing its projects.<\/p>\n On the 14th January, the company\u2019s CEO Kelly Loeffler<\/strong> announced through a blog post<\/a><\/strong> that it had made its first acquisition. In the announcement, the company had purchased \u201ccertain assets\u201d belonging to Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG)<\/strong>, an independent futures commission merchant and whose deal will be concluded in February next month.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, we reported that Bakkt had concluded a funding round<\/a> <\/strong>that saw the company raise $182.5 million that was going to be used towards developing its infrastructure.<\/p>\n