Crypto in the UAE. TRES Was Approved by DMCC for OTC Trade License to Operate...

On photo left to right: Saif Al Mansouri – CEO TRES OTC DMCC; Ahmed Bin Sulayem – Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DMCC; Dmitry Krasnogor – Managing Director TRES OTC DMCC; Antony Katin – CEO SIMBA Storage; Alexey Liakhovnenko – CEO TRES Group GmbH. Back in 2020, at the Davos Summit, the DMCC (UAE Free Economic Zone) announced a strategic partnership with CV VC and CV Labs to launch Crypto Valley, the world’s largest ecosystem of cryptography, blockchain and distributed ledger in Dubai. More and more countries are adopting....

Tehran Province, which houses Iran’s capital, was awarded only one license to operate a crypto mining center. Iran’s Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade issued operating licenses for 30 crypto mining centers in the country, the country's Financial Tribue reported last Wednesday.Citing data from the ministry’s website, the report says that Iran’s Semnan Province received the most licenses, with six crypto mining farms now authorized to operate in the region. Alborz Province secured four such licenses, followed by Mazandaran, East Azarbaijan and Zanjan Provinces. Tehran Province, which....

Crypto startup Avanti Financial Group has been granted a license to offer banking services by the Wyoming State Banking Board. The license, or bank charter, means Avanti can now operate as a conventional bank – but one with a twist, capable of holding both crypto and dollars. It plans to launch in 2021. According to a statement published Oct. 28, the firm will also now be able to take custody of crypto assets like bitcoin while its plan for the creation of Avit, a tokenized US dollar, has been given the go ahead. The company’s application for a bank charter was accepted in....

The Swiss crypto bank, SEBA Bank, was recently granted a license to operate in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the UAE’s financial center. The license allows SEBA to conduct regulated services. SEBA’s Strategy The Swiss-registered digital asset bank, SEBA Bank, has been granted a license that allows it to operate in the UAE’s international financial center, the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). According to reports, the Financial Service Permission (FSP) license, which was issued by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), became effective on February 7,....

The Bank of Spain, the central bank of the country, has recognized the first cryptocurrency platform that will be able to operate and provide officially approved services in the country. The first exchange to receive this approval was Bit2me, which is now approved to act as a virtual asset service provider (VASP). While this is the first platform approved, others will have to complete the lengthy process established in the law to serve Spanish users. Spain Starts Licensing VASPs The Bank of Spain approved the first platform to act officially as a recognized virtual asset service....