THELOGICALINDIAN - Following assorted drudge letters the South Korean government explains how it will strengthen the authoritative framework for cryptocurrency exchanges A bill has already been submitted which imposes assorted new obligations on crypto exchanges
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Korean Government’s Solution
Following contempo letters of assorted aegis breaches at cryptocurrency exchanges, the South Korean government has appear the capacity of the new bill to adapt crypto exchanges, bounded media report.
On Tuesday, June 19, South Korea’s additional better crypto exchange, Bithumb, acquaint a apprehension on its website and tweeted that about 35 billion won (~US$31 million) account of cryptocurrencies was stolen. However, the barter promptly removed the apprehension and deleted its tweets about the annexation anon afterward. The Bithumb adventure came aloof 10 canicule afterwards the country’s seventh better crypto exchange, Coinrail, claimed that it was afraid on June 10, with the accident estimated at about $40 million.
Choi Jong-ku, Chairman of the country’s top banking regulator, the Banking Services Commissions (FSC), commented on the Bithumb account on Wednesday. He was quoted by Newsis saying:
He explained that an alteration bill to the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information has already been submitted to the National Assembly in adjustment to accomplish this.
Crypto exchanges are currently “in the dark spot” of the Korean regulators, Newspim wrote, abacus that they are “expected to be monitored by the banking authorities through the ‘report system’.” The advertisement elaborated, “This will block actionable money bed-making application basic bill exchanges and enhance the rules for affairs with bartering banks in accommodating relations such as aperture basic accounts.”
The Revised Bill
According to the proposed bill, the government “will ascertain a basic bill barter as a basic bill administration business,” the advertisement described, acquainted that the obligation to anticipate money bed-making will be imposed on all crypto administration businesses.
“If the bill passes the National Assembly, a basic bill barter charge be answerable to report to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as a basic bill administration business and be consistently supervised by the FIU,” the account aperture detailed. If the authorities acquisition any actionable activities, again the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) and the FIU will audit and investigate them.
Son Sung-eun, FIU’s Director of Planning and Cooperation Team, was quoted saying:
The proposed alteration additionally obligates all banking companies to “preserve banking transaction abstracts and advice accompanying to the accomplishing of binding transaction reporting, aerial banknote transaction reporting, chump confirmation, etc. for bristles years.”
Penalties and Punishments
Sanctions will be imposed on any crypto businesses in abuse of or declining to accede with the banking regulators’ rules. They accommodate “recommending the adjournment of admiral at the aforementioned akin as banks and balance companies, suspending business operations, admonishing of institutions, and antidotal orders.”
FIU administrator Kim Ji-woong explained one accurate antidotal measure:
Hong Sung-ki, Vice Director of Basic Bill Countermeasures, was quoted by Hankyung bombastic that the achievement of this bill “does not beggarly that basic bill exchanges are accurately accustomed and captivated into the system.”
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