Abu Dhabi Grants Kraken License To Operate Crypto Exchange
The Middle East has risen to prominence as a favored location for cryptocurrency exchanges, with Kraken becoming the latest to be granted a license by the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). Kraken is the first worldwide virtual asset exchange group to get a complete financial license from the ADGM in the United Arab Emirates, the […]
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Abu Dhabi Global Market has awarded a full financial license to crypto exchange Kraken. “Kraken will be the first global virtual assets exchange group in the UAE to offer investors the ability to invest, trade, withdraw and deposit virtual assets (bitcoin and ether) directly in local AED currency,” the regulator explained.
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