Belgian regulator reviews crypto asset classifications while awaiting harmoni...
The Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority created a chart to differentiate crypto asset securities, investment instruments and financial instruments. The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), the Belgian regulator, is seeking comments on its communication on the classification of crypto assets as securities, investment instruments or financial instruments. Aimed at issuers, offerors and service providers, the agency’s communication will serve as guidance to the existing order until European regulatory harmonization is achieved. The communication is meant to address....
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The Belgian regulator, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), says scammers are employing new techniques which target Tinder and Facebook users. Using what the FSMA terms an “emotional scam,” criminals are targeting male users of the dating app Tinder with promises of exceptional returns on investments. However, the purported investments are in fact part of a plot to defraud unsuspecting Tinder users. As soon as the scammer gets the victim’s money, they disappear. Use of Fake Profiles In a public warning issued Dec. 3, the Belgian regulator explains how....
Prominent cryptocurrency exchange Binance has devised a strategy to save its Belgian market following a suspension order by Belgium’s financial market regulator in June. The world’s largest exchange was ordered to cease its operations in Belgium because it offered crypto services from countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Related Reading: Bitcoin Lightning Network On […]
Binance Belgium, the Belgian wing of the world’s largest crypto exchange, has reopened its operations three months following a ban from the nation’s financial market regulator. On June 23, Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) directed the exchange to cease offering services to the Belgian market because it operates from nations outside the European […]
Belgian Bitcoin Association is growing steadily. The popularity of Bitcoin is growing steadily. Some claim that reason of the Bitcoin popularity increase is because of the big companies like overstock that are accepting Bitcoin payments for their goods. However history and statistical data has shown us that it is largely due to the fact of an active Bitcoin community that is open to all that is the main reason that Bitcoin is growing strong in most countries. This is also the case with the Belgian Bitcoin enthusiasts who have banded together to create the Belgian Bitcoin Association. The....
The world of finance already seems to evolve at a slow pace, yet some countries manage to come up new ideas that make the situation even worse than before. Recently the Belgian Court of Cassation has decided to let the Department of Finance use any evidence in court, even if it has been obtained through “dubious” activities. When governmental bodies and departments start blurring the lines between what is morally correct, and what is an outright breach of privacy, things take a turn for the worse. The main issue most people have with the ruling by the Belgian Court of Cassation is how it....