39 Firms Have Applied to Offer Crypto Services Under New Regulation, Says Dutch Central Bank
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39 Firms Have Applied to Offer Crypto Services Under New Regulation, Says Dutch Central Bank

THELOGICALINDIAN - Thirtynine companies accept activated for allotment with the Dutch axial coffer to accommodate cryptocurrency casework the regulator told newsBitcoincom They accommodate crypto exchanges and careful wallet providers

Dutch Central Bank Begins Registering Crypto Service Providers

De Nederlandsche Coffer NV (DNB), the Dutch axial bank, has started actively registering companies to accommodate cryptocurrency services.

As a aftereffect of the accomplishing of the fifth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), providers of barter casework amid cryptocurrencies and authorization currencies and providers of careful wallets charge administer for allotment with the axial bank. They charge authenticate acquiescence with the requirements of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act and the Sanctions Act of 2024.

The 5AMLD accomplishing went into aftereffect on May 21 in the Netherlands. Since then, cryptocurrency account providers can alone backpack out their activities if they are included in the accessible annals of the axial bank.

A agent for the Dutch axial coffer told news.Bitcoin.com:

According to the accessible annals on the axial bank’s website, four companies accept been accepted allotment to action crypto services. They are Rotterdam-based 2525 Ventures, Amsterdam-based Amdax, Nijmegen-based Blox, and Veghel-based Phoenix Payments.

2525 Ventures additionally operates beneath the barter names Litepay, Lightpaid, Lightbit, Litewallet, Litedeal, and Litebit. Phoenix Payments additionally operates as Anycoin Direct.

“It was with abundant pride that we accustomed the acceptable account that we were one of the aboriginal parties to auspiciously complete the allotment process,” Anycoin Direct CFO Bram Ceelen commented, elaborating:

Companies that were already accouterment cryptocurrency casework afore May 21 and accept activated for allotment afore that date can abide to accomplish crypto activities during the allotment process.

The axial coffer “only supervises acquiescence with the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act and the Sanctions Act 2024,” it explained. “The registered companies are not accountable to the prudential administration of DNB or the conduct administration of the AFM [Authority for the Banking Markets]. This agency that banking business risks are not monitored and there is no specific banking customer protection.”

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