{"id":68500,"date":"2024-01-08T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T11:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=68500"},"modified":"2024-01-08T07:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T11:11:04","slug":"blackrock-plans-layoffs-amid-spot-etf-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/blackrock-plans-layoffs-amid-spot-etf-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock Plans Layoffs Amid Spot ETF Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world's largest money management company<\/a>, BlackRock, will allegedly announce layoffs affecting 600 workers worldwide, or around 3% of the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BlackRock Plans Layoffs Amid Spot ETF Approval<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With this move, BlackRock is preparing for the Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a> (SEC) of the United States to approve its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the internal description of the layoffs is “routine,” they occur following a time of sharply increasing assets under management (AUM). In the upcoming days, a statement regarding the layoffs is anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planned elimination of about 600 jobs is similar to BlackRock's strategy from the previous year, in which layoffs were based on factors related to employee performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BlackRock's stock recovered in 2023, climbing 6%, after declining by 21% in 2022. A Fox Business article claims that a BlackRock representative declined to comment on the layoffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The business will release its fourth-quarter (Q4) financial results on Friday.A plausible explanation for the layoffs could be that BlackRock is entering a more mature stage of its business after years of strong growth in Assets Under Management (AUM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Q4 analyst consensus predicts that earnings will drop by 2.46% year over year to $8.71 per share. BlackRock's AUM was $9 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2023, less than its peak of almost $10 trillion in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The asset decline also happened when BlackRock came under political fire for implementing Environmental Social Governance\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> (ESG) investing. As part of this approach, investment funds are allocated to publicly traded companies in the sustainable energy industry or those actively engaged in lowering their carbon footprint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, corporate governance practices, including boardroom diversity, are encouraged. Nevertheless, BlackRock's healthy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) sector saw a significant inflow of $187 billion. ETFs are securities that are tracked and traded on major exchanges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Approval<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Should the SEC grant the company's application for a spot in the Bitcoin ETF, BlackRock will be among the leading asset managers to provide a cryptocurrency investment product<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BlackRock is expecting approval on January 10th, which also happens to be the SEC's deadline for approving or rejecting the ARK 21 Shares spot Bitcoin ETF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF filing has a deadline of January 15th imposed by the SEC. This comes after applicants for spot Bitcoin ETFs have recently submitted several revision filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In line with other asset managers such as Valkyrie, Grayscale, Bitwise, Hashdex, ARK 21Shares, Invesco Galaxy, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, VanEck, and WisdomTree, BlackRock filed a 19b-4 amendment for its spot BTC ETF application on January 5th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completing S-1 documentation is necessary for U.S. exchanges<\/a> to list shares of investment instruments that are directly exposed to cryptocurrencies, even if these filings constitute significant stages in the SEC clearance process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world’s largest money management company, BlackRock, will allegedly announce layoffs affecting 600 workers worldwide, or around 3% of the workforce. With this move, BlackRock is preparing for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States to approve its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). Even though the internal description of the layoffs is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":68502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1520,940,10786,143],"class_list":["post-68500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blackrock","tag-etf","tag-layoff","tag-sec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/croc_1704708966578.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}