Calvin Ayre and Bitcoin SV Groups back institutional exchange, DRIVE Markets

DRIVE Markets ($DRV), the institutional crypto and fiat exchange, announced an investment from entrepreneur Calvin Ayre, founder of Ayre Group and CoinGeek. In a bid to entice traders from the $5 trillion forex market, DRIVE Markets has teamed up with forex giants including First Derivatives and MetaTrader to offer a crypto trading experience synonymous with forex trading.

Ayre is a key backer of BSV, through his CoinGeek mining, media and investment operations, and expects the undisclosed investment which is in the multiple seven figures, to provide a significant boost to BSV enterprise usage and transaction volume.

DRIVE Markets recently announced DRIVE Pay, a multi-protocol, real-time remittance and gross settlement network for crypto and fiat currencies. DRIVE Pay will use the BSV blockchain as the anchoring ledger for its payments network and will use BSV coins as a bridge or intermediary currency to enable liquidity.

“At DRIVE, our roadmap leverages the infrastructure and capabilities of our institutional exchange and we were looking for the right solution partner that could scale DRIVE Pay to become a global leader in the multi-trillion dollar payment and settlement space. Bitcoin SV, as a commodity data ledger, makes it the ideal blockchain to anchor DRIVE Pay and the BSV team possess a level of expertise and commitment to enterprise development that really impressed us,” said Kate Hiscox, CEO at DRIVE Markets.