Japanese crypto trading platform Liquid.com and Virtual Currency Partners (VCP) joined hands to form a joint venture – Liquid Financial USA Inc. (Liquid USA) – to enter the US market.
The joint venture has already registered with FinCEN and established offices in two cities in the country – New York and Georgia. The company is now pushing to get to start its services in all states in the country.
Commenting on the expansion, Mike Kayamori, Liquid’s co-founder and CEO, said: “The US is one of the world’s largest markets for cryptocurrency and we have received widespread expressions of interest from our community, corporate and institutional customers to serve the US market.”
Launched in 2014, Liquid is a subsidiary of Japanese fintech giant Quoine. The platform allows its users to access a
“This joint venture and the acquisition of IQX represents our commitment to expand in the US, and we look forward to working closely with Virtual Currency Partners to accelerate our platform growth. I am personally honored and excited to be working again with Barry Schiffman, the Co-founder and former Executive Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners, a mentor of mine from my days at Globespan dating back to 2003,” Kayamori added.
A strategic partnership
The partnership with VCP will also boost the company’s aim of expansion in the new market. Barry Schiffman, the chairman of VCP, has over 30 years of experience in investing in high-growth companies. He served as the executive managing director of JAFCO Ventures, the US arm of leading Japan venture capital fund JAFCO, before co-founding Globespan Capital Partners.
“After nearly a year of studying the cryptocurrency space and researching a number of players, we were extremely impressed with Liquid and the strong foundation it built for itself as Japan’s first FSA-approved cryptocurrency exchange and one of the top 5 cryptocurrency exchanges in the world,” Schiffman said.
Earlier this month, the Liquid revealed that it has closed its Series C funding round which . With this, the Japanese company has become one of a handful of crypto-related startups to gain a “Unicorn” status.
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