Over 300,000 financial professionals working in asset management, hedge funds or other institutions now have access to bitcoin cash data directly via their Thomson Reuters Eikon platform.
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Toronto-headquartered multinational mass media and information firm, Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE: TRI), has added bitcoin cash () to its Bloomberg Terminal challenger platform, Eikon. has thus become only the third cryptocurrency to list on the platform following bitcoin () and ethereum.
This development can be seen as a reaction to Bloomberg which recently expanded its bitcoin coverage on the terminal and added ethereum, ripple (XRP) and litecoin feeds to its service.
Eikon first added to its suite of tracked assets, based on a feed from Bitstamp exchange, back in mid 2014.
Bitcoin cash has being getting more and more adoption recently, with the latest major example being . The the largest bitcoin payment processor in the world announced just a couple of days ago that it will start processing payments for invoices and debit loads.
The Eikon Platform Reach
The platform is connected to more than 400 exchanges and OTC-traded markets, and over 70 direct exchange feeds, delivered via low latency data feeds. It also offers connectivity to deep liquidity pools, with over 80 providers and more than 1,300 institutional clients, plus FX market pricing from over 2,000 contributing sources in 175 fiat currencies.
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