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4 coin market exchanges, including Gopax, acquired virtual asset business licenses

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yu-ah = Domestic virtual currency exchanges that have reported themselves as coin market (transactions between virtual assets) are entering the system one after another.

According to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Financial Services Commission on the 26th, four virtual asset providers, including Gopax (operator Streami), Pigeon Wallet (Childley), ProBit (Ocean’s), and Poblegate (Pobblegate), are obtained qualifications.

All of these exchanges are coin market operators, and they submitted a report on September 24 and were repaired in about two months.

With this, a total of 10 cryptocurrency exchanges have been reported and repaired so far. As a KRW market (virtual asset transaction in KRW) operators, the four major exchanges, Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit, completed the report and repair, and as a coin market operator, the four reported and repaired were added to the two existing Gdac and Flybit. done.

Exchanges that have been reported and accepted are expected to receive an official notice of repair within a certain period of time. Cryptocurrency exchanges that have obtained business qualifications must fulfill anti-money laundering obligations such as KYC as soon as they receive a repair notice.

The FIU is reviewing reports on 19 coin market operators and 13 other businesses, including wallet companies, and plans to complete the review within this year.

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