{"id":35316,"date":"2021-01-25T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35316"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:45:41","slug":"coinmena-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-secures-bahrain-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinmena-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-secures-bahrain-license\/","title":{"rendered":"CoinMENA, a cryptocurrency exchange, secures Bahrain license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange CoinMENA has obtained a license from the Central Bank of Bahrain and a Shariah compliance certificate from Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB). This is stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/mena\/en\/press-releases\/story\/Middle_Easts_cryptocurrency_exchange_CoinMENA_acquires_license_from_the_Central_bank_of_Bahrain_as_it_gears_for_launch-ZAWYA20210124125245\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trading platform will operate in the Middle East and Africa, including Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to become one of the notable global players. To this end we will expand the number of supported assets and jurisdictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After launch, CoinMENA users will have access to five cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). The exchange will also offer clients OTC trading services.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2021, Bangladesh carried out its first <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bangladesh-conducts-its-first-shariah-compliant-blockchain-transaction\">blockchain transaction under Sharia law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news via Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoinMENA, a cryptocurrency exchange, has obtained a license from the Central Bank of Bahrain and a Shariah compliance certificate from Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB). The press release says the trading platform will operate in the Middle East and Africa, including Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman. &#8220;We plan to become one of the notable global players. To this end we will expand the number of supported assets and jurisdictions.&#8221; After launch, CoinMENA users will have access to five cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). The exchange will also offer OTC trading services. Earlier in 2021, Bangladesh carried out its first {{AOPEN_1}}blockchain transaction under Sharia law{{ACLOSE_1}}. Subscribe to ForkLog news via Telegram: ForkLog FEED \u2014 full news feed, ForkLog \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1552,1166,1681],"class_list":["post-35316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bahrain","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-islamic-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35317,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35316\/revisions\/35317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}