FSA halts operations of two exchanges over KYC failure: The FSA has ceased the operations of two exchanges when they failed to implement the Know - Your - Customer (KYC) licensing requirements.
Earlier this month,
the FSA halted operations at two cryptocurrency exchanges (Eternal Link and FSHO) and issued a business improvement order to a third exchange called Last Roots.
Not exact matches
Whilst a rough translation of the
FSA's warning appears scant in detail, the Nikkei Asian Review has portrayed a dramatic picture, reporting that «The
FSA plans to work with police to file criminal charges if Binance fails to
halt its Japan
operation.»
At the time, another exchange, Bit Station, was also ordered to
halt its
operation while five others were mandated to report back to the
FSA regarding business improvement measures.
As a result of the
FSA's on - site inspections of Japan's 15 as - of - yet unregistered crypto exchanges, the regulator has already
halted operations at two exchanges and sent business improvement notices to seven, including Coincheck.
After the historical Coincheck hack in January that saw the loss of 530 million dollars worth of cryptos, the Financial Services Agency (
FSA), Japan's financial watchdog, intervened and
halted Coincheck
operations until it implemented mechanisms to prevent money laundering and enhance protection for client assets» protection.
As a result of those checks the
FSA will order some of the unregistered exchanges to
halt their
operations»