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Eddie Murphy-Inspired Fintech Firm Signs With Winklevoss Crypto Exchange

  • Beeks to start Bitcoin, Ether trading through Gemini exchange
  • Glasgow-based firm named many projects after hit 1983 movie

Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in Trading Places, 1983.

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A U.K. fintech firm named after one of Eddie Murphy’s early movies has hooked up with crypto royalty.

Beeks Financial Cloud Group Plc -- whose name is a reference to the 1983 film ‘Trading Places’ starring Murphy and Dan Aykroyd -- signed a pact with Gemini Exchange, the crypto trading platform run by the billionaire Winklevoss twins. The agreement will allow Beeks clients to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum through Gemini, according to a statementBloomberg Terminal Wednesday.