Not to mention, the entry of big financial firms such as TD Ameritrade and Fidelity Investments into the cryptocurrency space is also assisting the bitcoins bullish case.
I'm not quite sure that these financial groups are aiming to help bitcoin grow in any way; the growth of bitcoin if anything hurts the influence these institutions have. If anything, they'll try to manipulate the price and seek to have their own trading bots go at it. seeing as how bitcoin is fairly more volatile as an asset compared to most stocks, they stand to make a pretty large amount if they are able to assert any control over the price.