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Some Wall Street banks will not handle trades in first bitcoin futures

JPMorgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup among those who will not provide access for their clients

Some Wall Street banks will not handle trades in first bitcoin futures

Some of Wall Street's biggest banks are telling their customers that they will not provide them with access to the first bitcoin futures market when it goes live this weekend, according to people familiar with the matter.

Those banks are JPMorgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Royal Bank of Canada, write Alexander Osipovich, Gunjan Banerji and Julie Wernau for The Wall Street Journal.

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