The brokerage company Finam has provided its clients with access to operations with crypto-currency futures traded on the Chicago Stock Exchange (CBOE).

Brokers expect that Russians will readily take advantage of this service, because the market lacks safe ways to work with virtual money. Access to trading will be available only to qualified investors. This means that the bidder must meet a number of requirements: the total value of his securities or obligations must be at least 6 million rubles, he must have experience in the securities market for at least three years, and so on. The minimum contract volume will be 1 bitcoin, its validity period is 1 month. The size of the commission of the intermediary for transaction support is $ 1.5 dollars, another $ 15 from the operation will be taken by CBOE exchange site, the Russian company website says.. It is expected that soon investors from Russia will also be able to access the trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) - the largest North American financial derivatives market. The management of the brokerage company noted that the opening of trading in futures does not at all mean that it makes any predictions about the growth rate of bitcoin, or, conversely, its fall. "We do not talk about the prospects of crypto currency, do not make a forecast about when he (bitcoin) will collapse.

We just created a product that meets the expectations of our customers, "- said the head of the" Finam "Jaroslav Dusuchet. Trading in futures for bitcoins on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started on December 18, 2017. When you open the cost of contracts for January 2018 g. beat all conceivable records and made $ 20.6 thousand. However, in the following month the cost of the most popular crypto currency fell almost twice. At the moment, according to the data of CoinMarketCap, the average price of bitcoin is $ 11.1 thousand. This morning, bitcoin dipped in price by 2.95% after reporting that the financial authorities of Japan are going to tighten control over the digital currency market. At the local Coincheck exchange, last week trading was stopped by all crypto-currencies, except bitcoin, after the news of an attempt to break into exchange servers. This was followed by a massive withdrawal of investors' funds. After that, the authorities of Japan announced strict checks of all crypto-exchange exchanges and demanded that all trading platforms strengthen security measures by February 13. The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation last week presented a draft law on the regulation of the crypto-currency market. In it, virtual money is not recognized as a means of payment, that is, it is legally impossible for them to purchase goods or services. The ministry said that under the new law (if it is adopted in this form), the crypto currency can be exchanged for other assets only through accounts of special operators. Thus, in fact, the crypto currency can become "property in electronic form". According to the developers of the document, a complete ban on transactions with them will only create conditions for the use of crypto-currency illegally.