Japan Security Token Association to Collaborate with Tokeny Solutions and Japan’s Financial Institutions to Solve Security Token Issues
The Japan Security Token Association (JSTA), an organization that is promoting building an ecosystem that uses security tokens, announced on November 18 that it has concluded a basic agreement with the Luxembourg security platform operator Tokeny Solutions to work together…
The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association Announces Members’ Trading and Account Statistics for September 2019
The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), the self-governing organization for the cryptocurrency industry in Japan, announced the amount of spot trading and number of cryptocurrency accounts as of November 8, 2019 tallied from the totals of association members in…
Major Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange Coincheck Will Start Handling Stellar Lumens (XLM) from November 12
Coincheck, a major cryptocurrency exchange and subsidiary of the Japanese financial listed company Monex Group, announced on November 1 that it will begin handling the cryptocurrency Stellar Lumens (XLM) from November 12, 2019. The exchange will be the first to…
FATF Begins Inspection on Anti-Money Laundering Measures at Japanese Entities on October 28
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international organization dedicated to anti-money laundering measures, began undertaking an assessment at the Japanese government and financial institutions in Tokyo on October 28. It was reported that companies that operate cryptocurrency exchanges are…
Bank of Japan Reaffirms No Immediate Plans to Consider Issuing Digital Currencies
Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda once again dismissed the possibility of the central bank issuing a digital currency at a press conference after a G20 meeting between finance leaders and central banks. Facebook’s stablecoin project Libra,…
CryptoCurrency Is A Warrior
The fast expansion of digital technologies has contributed to the boom of cryptocurrencies over the past year. Though, this awoke the necessities for further steps that need to be taken in shaping this growing market to address the emerging regulatory…
Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association Releases Opinion Brief on Cryptoasset Management
The Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association (JCBA), an organization that strives for the sound development of the cryptoasset (virtual currency) business in Japan, released an opinion brief to the public on October 11 regarding regulations for cryptoasset management that were discussed…
How could South Africa spearhead crypto adoption in Africa?
South Africa has shown itself in multiple crypto headlines over the past couple of years. No matter if it was due to some kind of local scheme being busted, or a new crypto company being founded, South Africa always seems…
LINE Subsidiary and Nomura Holdings Conclude Final Capital Alliance Agreement in the Blockchain Field
LINE Corporation <3938>, which operates the Japan’s largest messaging app service LINE, announced that it concluded a final capital alliance agreement alongside the LINE Group company LVC Corporation with Japan’s top domestic securities firm Nomura Holdings In. for the blockchain…
Japan’s Self-Governing Body for Cryptocurrency to Implement Self-Imposed Regulations Related to ICOs and IEOs at the End of September
The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), the organization approved by the Financial Services Agency to self-govern cryptocurrency regimes, imposed regulations on September 27 entitled “Guidelines on Regulations Pertaining to the Sale of New Cryptocurrencies.†All cryptocurrency exchanges that have…