Market Extra: Cathie Wood’s ARK ETF buys into SPAC related to stablecoin user Circle

An progressing chronicle of this essay misstated a series of shares and a sum dollar volume invested in Concord Acquisition Corp., by Ark Investment Management’s ARK Fintech Innovation ETF. The blunder has been corrected.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has purchased shares of a special-purpose partnership company, or SPAC, that is merging with Circle, one of a biggest stablecoin companies in crypto.

Circle is formulation to go public, after a provider of payments and book infrastructure to internet companies, announced in a summer a skeleton to combine with SPAC Concord Acquisition Corp.
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Wood’s ARK Fintech Innovation ETF
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purchased 69,300 shares of a SPAC for $705, 820, representing a new position for a fund.

The partnership of Circle, co-founded and run by CEO Jeremy Allaire, and Concord was approaching to start in a fourth entertain of 2021, with a total entity slated to list on a NYSE underneath a ticker pitch “CRCL.” 

Circle is a principal user of a stablecoin, USD Coin, that is a digital item pegged to dollar and dictated to reason a value, portion as a “stable” item in a universe of practical coin’s such as bitcoin
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and Ether
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on a Ethereum network that are notoriously volatile.

Circle’s USD Coin
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is a sixth largest digital item by marketplace value among crypto and a second largest stablecoin, behind Tether
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USD accounts for approximately a third of a stablecoin supply.

However, stablecoins have drawn inspection from U.S. financial regulators who contend a resources might poise a risk to a financial complement if not scrupulously regulated.

Last month, a Financial Stability Oversight Council, or FSOC, said in a news that “if stablecoins are marketed with a explain that they will say a fast value, they might be theme to widespread redemptions and item liquidations if investors doubt a credit of that claim.”

Back in October, Circle pronounced that it perceived an “investigative subpoena” during a summer from a Securities and Exchange Commission requesting “documents and information per certain of a holdings, patron programs, and operations,” in a filing. “We are auxiliary entirely with their investigation,” Circle said. 

Shares of Concord Acquisition, that is corroborated by former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond, sealed Thursday trade down 0.5% and is prosaic for a week so distant though down 3.2% so distant in 2022. By comparison, The ARK Fintech ETF finished Thursday off 5.2% and was looking during a 3% weekly slip and an over 13% decrease in a initial dual weeks of a year, so far, FactSet information show.

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