Bahrain Central Bank Issues License to Shariah-Compliant Crypto Exchange
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Bahrain Central Bank Issues License to Shariah-Compliant Crypto Exchange

THELOGICALINDIAN - Middle Eastern crypto barter Coinmena said this anniversary that it had acquired a crypto assets casework aggregation authorization from the Central Bank of Bahrain CBB advanced of its planned launch

In accepting the license, the exchange, which has been certified by the Shariyah Review Bureau, said it had met several technical, operational, and aegis requirements from the CBB.

Coinmena added that the authorization allows it to accomplish as a adapted and onshore platform, acceptable one of alone a few absolutely accountant and operating crypto exchanges in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region,

At launch, Coinmena affairs to action atom trading in bristles above crypto assets – bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), ripple (XRP), bitcoin banknote (BCH), and litecoin (LTC) to both retail and institutional investors. It will additionally host an over-the-counter (OTC) board for beyond transactions.

The barter did not accommodate a date for its planned launch. Its casework will be accessible to investors in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman, it said in a Jan. 24 statement.

Dina Sam’an, co-founder and managing administrator of Coinmena, detailed:

Shariah compliance is a key chump charge and authoritative claim in best Muslim markets. As commendations bitcoin, the technology has been beheld as “haram” – acceptation that it is banned beneath Shariah laws on the base that cryptocurrencies may be acclimated for actionable activities such as money bed-making and fraud, according to some experts.

There is additionally affair over a abridgement of axial ascendancy and how that cryptocurrency band governments and axial banks of their ability over civic budgetary systems.

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