{"id":30437,"date":"2020-10-21T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30437"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:17:06","slug":"british-fintech-group-mode-global-holdings-to-shift-up-to-10-of-capital-into-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/british-fintech-group-mode-global-holdings-to-shift-up-to-10-of-capital-into-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"British fintech group Mode Global Holdings to shift up to 10% of capital into Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The London-listed fintech group Mode Global Holdings PLC <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.advfn.com\/stock-market\/london\/mode-global-MODE\/share-news\/Mode-Global-Holdings-PLC-Mode-adopts-Bitcoin-as-tr\/83499996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> the purchase of bitcoins as part of its investment strategy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mode Global Holdings became the first British public company to announce a cryptocurrency purchase. It earmarked up to 10% of its capital for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In the company&#8217;s statement, it noted that its confidence in Bitcoin had grown amid the coronavirus crisis unleashed by the pandemic and the Bank of England&#8217;s lowest interest rates in 326 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This decision is part of a long-term strategy to protect investors&#8217; assets from currency depreciation,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier two other major companies invested in Bitcoin. In August, the Nasdaq-listed analytics software provider MicroStrategy <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-becomes-the-first-nasdaq-listed-company-to-invest-part-of-its-capital-in-bitcoin\">acquired<\/a> 21,454 BTC (~$250m at the time of the deal), and a month later <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-bets-another-175-million-on-bitcoin\">bought<\/a> another 16,796 BTC for $175m. The firm&#8217;s total investments amounted to $425m.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Square, Jack Dorsey&#8217;s company, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/square-invested-50-million-in-bitcoin\">invested<\/a> $50 million in Bitcoin. The company&#8217;s investments in Bitcoin were valued at roughly 1% of its total assets at the end of the second quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London-listed fintech group Mode Global Holdings PLC announced its plan to buy bitcoins as part of its investment strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1156,52],"class_list":["post-30437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30439,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437\/revisions\/30439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}