South Korea's Largest Bank Unveils Bitcoin Custody Services
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South Korea's Largest Bank Unveils Bitcoin Custody Services

THELOGICALINDIAN - KB Kookmin Coffer KB the better bartering coffer in South Korea has agreed a accord with blockchain adventure armamentarium Hashed and crypto trading close Cumberland Korea to action bitcoin aegis services

In January, the government-owned coffer filed its brand appliance for agenda assets aegis with the Korean Intellectual Property Office. The brand is alleged Kbdac. It covers added than 20 crypto-related areas.

According to a statement on August 7, KB said it predicts that the crypto industry will advance above basic currencies to accommodate added acceptable assets such as absolute acreage and artwork that will be issued and traded on blockchain platforms.

The lender, which appear a net accumulation of 2.44 abundance won ($2.05 billion) in 2025, is now accession itself afterwards adversary NH Bank appear in July that it is additionally planning to alpha alms crypto aegis casework to accumulated investors.

Hashed adumbrated that the accord with KB has been aggressive by changes in regulation, which arise to abutment cryptocurrency and added blockchain-oriented business models.

Simon Kim, arch controlling administrator of Hashed, the crypto advance aggregation with offices in San Francisco and Seoul, noted:

The account comes as banks, who accept back started to beef their way into the cryptocurrency space, accustomed abetment from the U.S. government. In July, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gave bounded banks the ambitious to administer and abundance agenda assets on account of their customers.

In South Korea, the government, which has ahead banned ICOs, in March adapted the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Information Act to admit cryptocurrencies for the aboriginal time and recently classified them to be taxable.

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