Coin Exchange Flybit Business Report… Upbit, Report Repair ‘No. 1’ (Comprehensive)

Report submission increased to 6 places… FIU “in discussion with 27 companies”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Chae-rim Ha = The Korea Digital Exchange, which operates the virtual currency exchange Flybit, has submitted a report to the financial authorities as a virtual asset operator.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Financial Services Commission announced that as of 6:30 pm on the 17th, Flybit exchange and Korea Digital Asset (KODA), a virtual asset trustee, have submitted additional virtual asset business reports.

As a result, the number of virtual asset providers that the FIU has completed receiving reports in accordance with the ‘Act on the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Transaction Information (Special Act)’ has increased to six, including the ‘4 major exchanges’.

The four major exchanges submitted reports on the 20th of last month, starting with Dunamu (the exchange name is Upbit), followed by Bithumb Korea (Bithumb), Coinone (Coinone), and Korbit (Korbit).

The FIU also completed the review of Upbit and accepted the report. This is the first time a virtual asset business has received a report.

The FIU said, “Today, the 1st virtual asset business reporting review committee was held to review Dunamu. Considering the results of the Financial Supervisory Service’s report review on Dunamu and the discussion of the virtual asset business reporting committee, Dunamu It has been decided to accept the report of the virtual asset business operator.”

The report review committee consisted of nine external private experts.

Previously, although the administrative processing period for review of reports was 90 days, the authorities decided to proceed with the review quickly and accept the report early.

Flybit, which issued a new report on the same day, announced on the 10th of this month that the KRW market would be closed on the 17th. Therefore, it is not possible to support KRW transactions until a bank real-name verification account (hereinafter referred to as a real-name account) is secured and a change is reported.

The FIU disclosed that it was in pre-consultation with 27 business operators in addition to the 6 companies that submitted the report, including checking the required documents.

Assuming that they all submit their reports by the 24th, the filing deadline, it is expected that the number of reporting exchanges will reach 35.

According to the Special Provisions Act, virtual asset business operators are required to report to the FIU by the 24th after obtaining ISMS certification and a real-name account. If you do not support KRW transaction, you can report only with ISMS certification. Unreported exchanges will not be able to operate from the 25th.

To date, 28 coin exchanges have received ISMS certification, and 12 other virtual asset providers such as wallet operators.

The FIU urged virtual asset operators who have not yet submitted a report to file a report as soon as possible, considering that there is one week left until the end of the reporting period (24th).

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