Binance Expands Footprint In South Korea As France Ramps Up Crackdown
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has successfully completed its acquisition of South Korean-based digital asset exchange Gopax. Binance’s Gopax Stake Finalized On October 16, industry sources reported that South Korean financial authorities had finalized their review of Gopax’s executive changes, which had been pending for an extended period. Binance initially acquired […]
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On August 13, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance revealed it is ending a great number of services in South Korea. The company noted in the announcement that it evaluated local regulations and “will discontinue the following offerings in Korea, effective immediately.” Binance Ends Korean Crypto Services Last week, former CEO of Binance US and former acting Comptroller of the Currency, Brian Brooks, announced that he was leaving his position at the exchange. Prior to that HSBC suspended payments tied to Binance and the company also discontinued derivatives products in Hong Kong.....
Crypto exchange Binance has announced a discontinuation of South Korean Won trading pairs and language support. Crypto Exchange Binance Pulls Out Of South Korea As per an announcement on the firm’s website, the platform no longer offers support for certain South Korea-related services. These discontinued Binance services include South Korean Won (KRW) trading pairs, KRW […]
Binance has formally returned to South Korea after regulators approved its takeover of local exchange Gopax, a move that ends a long period of uncertainty over the deal and clears the way for the global firm to operate in one of Asia’s biggest crypto markets. Related Reading: Sam Bankman-Fried Blames Politics: Says Biden Team Targeted […]
South Korea’s tax authority is spending roughly $2 million to build an artificial intelligence system that hunts down unreported cryptocurrency income — even as lawmakers push to eliminate the very tax that system would help enforce. Related Reading: Crypto Crackdown Intensifies: Canada Revokes 47 Licenses A Bill To Kill The Crypto Tax The People Power […]
Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding virtual asset taxation in the country, South Korea’s Financial Authority recently proclaimed non-fungible tokens (NFT) as taxable. On Tuesday, The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea, announced that it would start taxing NFTs. According to The Korea Herald, from January next year, this tax law amendment would impose a […]