US Senators Urge Fidelity To Drop BTC Retirement Plan After FTX Collapse

U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Tina Smith have asked Fidelity Investments, one of the country’s largest financial services providers, to rethink its decision to grant retirement plan participants exposure to Bitcoin in the aftermath of the FTX implosion, in a letter released on Monday.

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