Gemini Exchange Moves Toward Launch With Twin NYDFS Approvals

Gemini Exchange Moves Toward Launch With Twin NYDFS Approvals

Gemini, the New York-based bitcoin exchange currently being developed by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has received two key approvals from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Gemini Trust Company received approval on 23rd September for its Articles of Organization, and was granted an exemption from the deposit insurance requirements of Section 32 of the Banking Law, steps president Cameron Winklevoss said put it on the "one yard line" for completing its current goal of entering the US market. Cameron Winklevoss explained that, with its Articles of....


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