Sentences with phrase «virtual currency exchange operator»

NEW YORK (Reuters)-- The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) said on Tuesday it has granted a license to Tokyo - based bitFlyer, allowing the virtual currency exchange operator to launch in the United States.

TOKYO (The Japan News / ANN)- Troubled virtual currency exchange operator Coincheck Inc. has decided to seek a fresh start under the umbrella of online brokerage Monex Group Inc..

In September, SBI Holdings was among the first to register as a virtual currency exchange operator with Japan's financial regulator as finews.asia reported.

Not exact matches

The crackdown on Seoul - based operators of some of the world's busiest virtual currency exchanges comes as the government attempts to calm frenzied demand for cryptocurrency trading in Asia's fourth largest economy.

Mobile money agents are effectively mini-forex exchanges, only, instead of foreign currency it's a private digital currency and instead of a foreign country, it's a mobile operator's virtual territory.

A lawsuit filed in court on December 15, 2016, alleges that Paul Vernon, former CEO and principal operator of Cryptsy, a money services business, and virtual currency exchange, stole an estimated $ 8.2 million in customer assets through accounts maintained at Coinbase.

Bitcoin is understood to fall under the definition of virtual currency in the Act because it is electronically exchanged for traditional currency by exchange service operators and can be used by anyone accepting Bitcoin as payment.

[2] A slight recession in the virtual currency market occurred in 2014 following the bankruptcy of Mt. Gox Co., a major exchange service operator in Japan, but the virtual currency market has since rebounded resoundingly.

According to Reuters, officials from the National Tax Service raided the offices of both local cryptocurrency exchange Coinone and Bithumb, which is the second largest virtual currency operator in the country.

The government's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has already started regulating virtual currency exchanges and their operators, but the new law requires them to register with the Prime Minister.

This was after the Japanese Diet enacted a bill on Wednesday that mandates the government's Financial Services Agency (FSA) to regulate virtual currency exchanges and their operators in the country, a Japan Times report revealed.

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Back in May, Japan's legislature passed a new bill, when in effect would regulate operators of bitcoin and virtual currency exchanges.