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Earlier this month, global financial crimes watchdog FATF urged G-7 economies like Japan to lead by example to implement its controversial "travel rule" for crypto transfers. origin »
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The ministry plans to launch an expert panel next month to explore the feasibility of a central bank digital currency.
2023-3-30 11:54 | |
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba will open a blockchain laboratory in Japan next month in an effort to push Web3 adoption in the country. The lab will be a collaboration between Tokyu Land Corporation and Skeleton Crew Studio and will enable game developers to learn about new blockchain technology and explore business opportunities.
2023-3-27 17:41 | |
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The Financial Services Agency of Japan asked that FTX Japan to halt business before the US bankruptcy filing. In December, the FTX branch filed to be allowed to resume withdrawals. Customers have been asked to verify their account balances before resuming withdrawals.
2023-2-19 20:07 | |
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Coinspeaker FTX Japan to Refund Customers & Shut Down Operations in Q1 2023 FTX Japan has created systems to refund crypto assets to customers after suspending withdrawals in the previous month.
2022-12-31 17:41 | |
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Though landlocked, Laos is famous for its splendid waterfalls and consequently, its hydroelectric potential. Last month, the Laotian government shifted its stance, allowing six companies to mine and tThe post Laos considers own digital currency, initiates joint-study with Japan fintech startup appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-10-3 11:30 | |
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As per recent reports, the bankruptcy case against the exchange platform Mt. Gox will conclude next month. About $6 B worth of BTC might get distributed to recipients worldwide, especially the MT Gox investors who have faced tough times since the exchange’s hacking fiasco.
2021-10-2 23:00 | |
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Cardano has been trending for a couple of weeks now, and for good reason. As the network continues to upgrade, ahead of the Alonzo mainnet hard fork next month, its native token ADA has seen an exponeThe post Cardano goes east after Japan's BitPoint becomes first to list ADA appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-25 11:00 | |
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Japan’s Central Bank has begun its first testing stage involving the use of Central Bank-based Digital Currencies(CBDC), experimenting with functions like distribution and issuance. The first phase will take about one year, primed to end around the third month of 2022.
2021-4-6 17:00 | |
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Japan’s former top financial regulator is joining the cryptocurrency exchange DeCurret as a special advisor next month. Toshihide Endo was the Financial Services Agency (FSA) commissioner between 2018 to 2020, during which he oversaw Japan’s banking and financial regulation, including on digital currency trading.
2021-3-24 21:03 | |
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The premise for the creation of this futures contract is the high uncertainty that surrounds the possibility of the Olympics games this year. This uncertainty is of course driven by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, especially considering the drastic rise of Coronavirus cases in Japan reported more than a month ago.
2021-2-26 13:14 | |
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SBI Group has announced it will be offering contracts for difference (CFD) trading for six cryptocurrency pairs. The service will go live at the end of this month. The giant of Japanese finance will become the first foreign exchange (Forex) company to offer such a derivative product for digital currencies in Japan.
2020-8-29 18:52 | |
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With every passing week and month, Ripple is moving ahead with its aim to take over the world's remittance market. Its Global Payments Network, RippleNet, has onboarded many customers from around the The post Ripple's next ODL corridor may be between Japan, South Korea appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-7-1 15:30 | |
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Whales on the hunt Bitcoin's price performance since the halving last month hasn't exactly lit the world on fire. While many expected BTC to surge soon after and touch the highs set last year, thatThe post 3 snippets to begin your day: XRP in Japan, Roger Ver takes on YT and more appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-6-16 14:30 | |
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Bitfury is planning to launch a Bitcoin mining fund in Japan following a rollout of the offering in North America last month.
2020-6-11 14:31 | |
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Coincheck, a Japan bitcoin and crypto exchange, today announced the addition of a new daily funded BTC savings plan. Coincheck launched its savings service platform in November 2019 to allow users to automatically deposit Japanese yen once a month to purchase BTC.
2020-3-5 23:21 | |
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BTCNEXT, an Asian based cryptocurrency exchange, earlier this month announced it received notification from the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) that it must suspend services for Japanese residents.
2019-12-27 23:17 | |
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The provider of the most used messaging app in Japan, LINE, has been awarded a crypto exchange lincense by the Japanese government. According to CoinDesk, the company which boasts of about 80 million users per month will now be able to provide crypto exchange services to its clients. The crypto trading platform will referred as […]
2019-9-7 02:02 | |
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Nissan has developed a golf ball that could turn anyone into Tiger Woods. The ball, shown today in a promotional video, allows anyone to sink jaw-dropping putts with little more than the ability to strike the ball.
2019-8-28 02:44 | |
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Following a major hack in the month of July, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, BitPoint, had closed down its services to prevent loss to wallets. The exchange is back in the news after it announced the resumption of its services, assuring everyone that proper safety precautions had been implemented.
2019-8-6 15:00 | |
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BCH merchant acceptance has continued to grow month after month but there are a few regions in the world where bitcoin cash retail acceptance is thriving. Over the last few weeks, North Queensland and Japan have shown significant growth and continue to dominate as some of the densest territories of BCH merchant adoption worldwide.
2019-7-24 01:37 | |
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Can Libra survive the Tokyo Drift? It has been a little over a month since Libra was unveiled and yet, it seems to have been a lot longer. The litany of reports, concerns, hearings and reactions from lawmakers regarding Libra is certainly entertaining for the cryptocurrency community, but it does pose an interesting question – […] The post Japan rolls out Libra ‘working group’ to assess macro-economic impact; looks to include G7 countries appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-13 11:00 | |
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The list of regulators eyeing Facebook’s cryptocurrency with apprehension keeps growing less than a month since Libra was announced. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, the Bank of Japan is worried that Libra will be a big risk to the existing financial systems as it is hard to regulate.
2019-7-3 15:47 | |
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Huawei has had a rollercoaster month. First, the company was placed on an entity list, prohibiting US companies from doing business with it. Then, this weekend, Donald Trump eventually reversed course in a face-to-face meeting with Chinese premier Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.
2019-7-2 13:13 | |
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As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) prepares to roll out a new set of rules to increase reporting requirements on cryptocurrency transactions at the G20 Leaders’ Summit this month, a collective of international industry associations have led an initiative to convene Virtual Assets Service Providers (VASPs) for the first-ever V20 Summit, to be held as a concurrent event to the G20 on June 28-29 in Osaka, Japan.
2019-6-26 12:30 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency may issue a license as early as this month that would allow the messaging app Line to open an exchange, allowing its users to trade cryptocurrency, including Line's native token, Link.
2019-6-21 19:23 | |
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Japanese messaging company Line Corp is reportedly gearing up to launch a cryptocurrency exchange, The report comes just days after fellow tech giant Facebook announced the launch of Libra. According to Bloomberg, which cites people close to the matter, Line could receive its license this month, with exchange operations expected to begin a few weeks after it gets the green light.
2019-6-20 14:34 | |
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Japanese messaging giant LINE may soon be able to open a cryptocurrency exchange for its 80 million users based in the country.
2019-6-20 10:00 | |
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Leaders of top crypto ventures including Circle, Coinbase, bitFlyer, Kraken, and Huobi will convene in Osaka, Japan, later this month to interact with policymakers and central bank executives of the countries of the G20 forum.
2019-6-18 13:00 | |
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By CCN: The hurdles of using crypto in money laundering are set to increase if plans by G20 countries materialize. Per Nikkei Asian Review, G20 countries are working on a deal aimed at creating a cryptocurrency exchange registry.
2019-5-31 13:56 | |
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Major economies of the world are looking forward to meeting in Japan next month and finding a middle ground on the long-running issue of cryptocurrency and crypto-exchanges. The world of cryptocurrency has often been a target for hackers, scammers, money launderers and Ponzi schemes, which is why many governments are prepared to take regulatory steps […] The post G20 Summit in June may introduce a registry for the world’s cryptocurrency exchanges appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-5-31 13:00 | |
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By CCN: US stock markets might be closed for Memorial Day, but that hasn’t stopped futures traders pumping the markets. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose on Monday as President Trump teased a wide-ranging trade deal with Japan as soon as August.
2019-5-27 13:15 | |
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Ahead of next month’s G20 summit, host Japan looks to tighten money laundering regulations, specifically targeting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is also due to inspect Japan’s anti-money laundering regime in the Autumn.
2019-5-23 12:00 | |
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has announced that the company is working on introducing its debit card to customers in the U. S. Armstrong’s announcement came in a live AMA session on YouTube on May 16, 2019, during which he fielded questions and touched on various topics such as community trust ratings for altcoins and fraud prevention.
2019-5-18 19:15 | |
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A new research paper produced by DataLight has discovered that the United States, Japan and South Korea are the three main fans of crypto exchanges in the whole world. Datalight investigated where all the traders come from and discovered that most of them come from the U. S. After analyzing over 100 platforms, the company […]
2019-5-1 00:58 | |
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Japan‘s top financial regulator has raided two cryptocurrency exchanges to enforce anti-money laundering rules, Reuters reports. Financial Services Agency (FSA) agents inspected digital asset firms Huobi Japan and Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange to make sure appropriate customer protections were in place.
2019-4-23 17:28 | |
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By CCN: Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has thrown open the account registration process for its cryptocurrency trading service, Rakuten Wallet. The company plans to launch the exchange in June, and prospective users who wish to use the platform will now be able to sign-up for the same.
2019-4-16 21:50 | |
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Rakuten, a major e-commerce company in Japan, has been working to launch their cryptocurrency exchange, Rakuten Wallet. According to a press release from the company, the registration on the crypto exchange has already been completed.
2019-3-26 03:12 | |
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A study conducted by Japan’s GMO Internet Group revealed that most Japanese are bullish about cryptocurrency. GMO surveyed over 11,000 participants during the month of February, with the intention of interpreting Japanese market sentiment.
2019-3-20 19:25 | |
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Japanese banking giant Mizuho Financial Group is preparing to issue its own yen-pegged stablecoin next month.
2019-2-26 12:41 | |
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South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
2018-12-4 21:41 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is reportedly set to introduce a regulatory framework governing initial coin offerings (ICOs). FSA to Limit Participation Capabilities Citing sources familiar to the matter, local Japanese media Jiji Press reports that the country’s Financial Services Agency is set to introduce regulations on initial coin offerings.
2018-12-3 18:00 | |
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Bloomberg today determined that the number of players registered in Fortnite is now around 200 million. Let that number sink into your head. Epic Games later confirmed that number to GamesIndustry.
2018-11-28 02:29 | |
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The Indian government has reportedly filed an affidavit with the country’s supreme court detailing its progress on cryptocurrency regulations. “Serious efforts are going on” to prepare the draft crypto bill and report, the government explained.
2018-11-21 04:05 | |
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Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly revealed that it expects to approve the country’s first portal for initial coin offerings (ICOs) this month, with ICO approvals to follow.
2018-11-9 08:45 | |
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2018-10-31 19:14 | |
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Google Ventures-backed Blockchain is debuting a hardware wallet that integrates with its software services, a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine details. In a partnership with hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, the cryptocurrency software company has developed what it calls “a custom hardware device.
2018-10-26 19:38 | |
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Japanese crypto exchange Zaif has concluded a business transfer agreement with another regulated crypto exchange in Japan. Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange will take over all of Zaif’s services and will be responsible for repaying users who lost their coins when Zaif was hacked last month.
2018-10-13 00:00 | |
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Last month, news. Bitcoin. com examined the problem of quantitative easing (QE) and its impact on the U. S. , and how such policies have spread to the rest of the world. This month, we continue to drill down on the phenomenon of governments printing trillions of dollars worth of fiat currency simply by pressing buttons on their computers.
2018-10-11 22:20 | |
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Google has revealed that it will begin allowing cryptocurrency exchange advertisements in the U.S. and Japan, starting in October.
2018-9-25 18:51 | |
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Турецкий парламент принял законопроект, устанавливающий строгие правила для обращения с криптовалютами в стране. Документ, принятый 12 ноября 2024 года, призван урегулировать быстрорастущий рынок криптовалют и обеспечить его соответствие международным стандартам.
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The Financial Action Task Force has said it does "not require countries to indiscriminately ban virtual assets and virtual asset service providers," after Pakistan's Minister of State for Finance and Revenue said crypto cannot be legalized due to conditions set by the watchdog.
Meeting international Anti-Money Laundering standards is the latest in a series of measures Japan has taken in recent months to improve its cryptocurrency regulation.
GMEX has acquired ING’s Pyctor business to connect CeFi and DeFi amid the increasing demand for hybrid finance.
“Countries that have not introduced Travel Rule legislation should do so as soon as possible, and FATF jurisdictions should lead by example," said the organization.