South Korea Proposes 5% Limit for Listed Firms’ Crypto Exposure
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South Korea Lets Companies Buy Crypto as Japan, Hong Kong Pull Back
South Korea has upended nearly a decade of crypto policy by allowing listed companies and professional investors to place part of their balance sheets into digital assets. The shift stands in contrast to tightening rules in Japan and Hong Kong. Asia no longer appears aligned on crypto regulation, and the divergence is becoming clearer. For the first time since 2017, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has finalized South Korea cryp…
The South Korea Financial Services Commission (FSC) shared on January 6 a draft of a “crypted trading guide for listed companies” with a public-private working group, as reported by Seoul Economic Daily on January 11. The draft would allow listed companies and registered professional investment corporations to allocate up to 5% of accounting capital to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, a measure that, according to the media, could enab…
South Korea's FSC to lift ban on corporate crypto investment
South Korea’s financial authorities will allow listed companies and professional investors to invest directly in crypto, ending a restriction that has been in place since 2017. The Financial Services Commission, the country’s top financial regulator, wants to bring institutional capital into the digital currency market that is currently dominated by retail traders. More than 3,500 listed companies and investor-registered corporations will be per…
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