Binance CEO Hits Back At Accusers Crypto Exchange Is A Chinese Company

The Binance founder has also detailed some personal and business-related challenges he had to overcome from the Chinese government, even before the launch of Binance in 2017. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has hit back at critics and conspiracy theorists who claim Binance to be a Chinese-based “criminal entity” that “secretly [belongs] in the pocket of the Chinese government.”CZ's response to critics came from a Sept. 1 blog post via Binance, and stems from a Twitter spat with a former Washington Post journalist who asked him; “While I have you here, who's Guangying Chen?” He explained....

Binance is taking more measures to comply with China’s cryptocurrency crackdown with new restrictions in the mainland. Binance crypto exchange officially announced on Oct. 13 that the company will delist the Chinese yuan (CNY) from its peer-to-peer trading platform on Dec. 31.Alongside terminating yuan trading pairs, Binance will continue further restricting access to its platform by users from mainland China, introducing new measures for accounts found to be linked to the region. Binance will specifically limit such accounts to “withdrawal only” mode, limiting transactions to withdrawals,....

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has received extensive media notice in recent months. Reuters stated that in response to the Ukrainian government’s call to freeze all Russian cryptocurrency accounts, Binance would block Russian customer accounts targeted by sanctions but not all of them. The crypto exchange was not alone in its stance on account […]

Indian authorities are reportedly investigating cryptocurrency exchange Binance in connection with an ongoing Chinese money laundering case that raked in more than 10 billion rupees ($134 million). Binance’s Regulatory Troubles Continue India is reportedly investigating whether the global cryptocurrency exchange Binance had any role in a Chinese money laundering scheme involving betting apps, local media reported Friday, citing people with knowledge on the matter. The country’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), a law enforcement agency under the Ministry of Finance, has summoned....

Crypto exchange giant Binance is the latest platform to receive a warning from regulators in Japan for operating in the country without a license. Crypto trading platform Binance may once again be heading for a standoff with financial regulators in Japan.On Friday, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) issued a warning to Binance, accusing the company of offering crypto exchange services in the country without registration. The agency also served a similar warning to crypto derivatives trading platform Bybit back in May.After China banned crypto trading back in 2017, Binance, along with many....