Thomson Reuters Adds Cryptocurrency Data To Desktop Feed

In yet another sign of the mainstreaming of cryptocurrencies, financial data provider Thomson Reuters has partnered with crypto data and analytics company CryptoCompare to provide order book and trade data for 50 cryptocurrencies on the former’s financial desktop platform, Eikon. 

Charles Hayter, CEO and founder of CryptoCompare, said the partnership would provide transparency to the market. “This partnership provides a great opportunity for the institutional investor community to access not only our data, but also to benefit from our experience and insight,” he said. 

“Despite the decline in the price of many of the leading cryptocurrencies during 2018, we continue to see increasing demand from our customers for pricing coverage of the major names. The partnership with CryptoCompare puts pricing data for this emerging market alongside other asset classes, giving our customers a more comprehensive, holistic trading view in Eikon,” said Sam Chadwick, Director of…