💰Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued operating licenses to 11 bitcoin exchanges.
In an announcement today, the regulator confirmed the action, one that follows an amendment to the payment services law that mandated all cryptocurrency exchanges register with authorities by the end of September. Passed in April, the new law established bitcoin as a legal payment method and extrapolated security guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges. CoinDesk
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