Binance could face heavy fines over stock tokens warns German regulator
The exchange has failed to publish relevant accompanying documents along with its recently launched stock tokens. Binance’s attempts to bridge traditional markets with the cryptocurrency space in the form of fractionalized stock tokens has drawn the attention of Germany’s financial regulator. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) warned on Wednesday that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange could face heavy fines for launching security-tracking tokens without an accompanying investor prospectus.Binance launched fractionalized stock tokens for Apple, MicroStrategy and....
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