How did it take them a week, when it took HitBTC a day to get this setup? Why did they delay deposits for so long as they were planning the bcash split for a long term beforehand? Did they not plan to have deposit/withdrawal support until recently?
Really don`t compare Kraken with HitBtc. They are on a really different levels,kraken is much bigger and has gained a lot of trust from users, thats why they waited for it to be secured for transactions and set up everything on a high level, for BCH to be traded smoothly on their exchanger. HitBtc is just adding everything when there is a chance(by the way a lot of complains from users of HitBtc about losing their funds).