Six major South Korean banks including Shinhan Bank, the second largest bank in the country, will officially begin
providing local cryptocurrency exchanges with virtual bank accounts.
Not exact matches
While China strictly banned initial coin offerings (ICOs) and
cryptocurrency exchanges platforms and Macau's monetary regulator barred
local firms from
providing ICO - related financial services, Hong Kong has emerged as something as an ICO hub.
On January 31,
local cryptocurrency exchanges are expected to open account registrations to new users and six major
local banks are set to
provide banking services to
cryptocurrency exchanges.
Accordingly, the businesses which
provide exchange services of those
cryptocurrencies on a regular basis must be registered with applicable
Local Finance Bureaus.
However, since then, six major South Korean banks have
provided support to
local exchanges, KFIU has started to regulate the market and the government has begun to consider
cryptocurrency businesses as legitimate financial service providers.
Hong Kong - based
cryptocurrency exchange Binance revealed that it will establish operations on the European archipelago of Malta, as well as
providing funds for other blockchain startups to grow the
local industry.
The
local firm that is operating these
cryptocurrency ATMs is called TPS, and
provides exchange services using cash terminals and, at the same time, an online trading platform.