{"id":44978,"date":"2021-06-25T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44978"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:30:19","slug":"japanese-regulator-issues-another-warning-to-binance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/japanese-regulator-issues-another-warning-to-binance\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese regulator issues another warning to Binance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan has issued a fresh warning to the cryptocurrency exchange Binance for operating in the country without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>The primary aim of the notice is investor protection. The document does not specify whether the regulator intends to bring any claims against the trading platform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">25 \u0438\u044e\u043d\u044f 2021 | 15:30<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Binance spokesperson told ForkLog that the exchange is not currently conducting exchange operations in Japan and is not attracting local users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe follow a collaborative approach in our dealings with regulators and take our legal obligations seriously,\u201d the company stressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2018, the FSA warned Binance about the need to obtain a licence to continue operating in Japan. At that time, the regulator tightened the risk-assessment process when opening new cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/japan-tightens-regulation-of-its-cryptocurrency-industry\">the FSA announced the addition of FATF provisions<\/a> <span data-descr=\"Financial Action Task Force\" class=\"old_tooltip\">FATF<\/span> for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures for local companies dealing with digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>In late May 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/japanese-regulator-issues-warning-to-bybit-exchange\">the FSA issued a similar warning<\/a> to the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit.<\/p>\n<p style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Binance2_keikokushilyo on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/512970222\/Binance2-keikokushilyo#from_embed\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Binance2_keikokushilyo<\/a> by <a title=\"View ForkLog's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/456422024\/ForkLog#from_embed\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued a fresh warning to the cryptocurrency exchange Binance for operating in the country without a licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44979,"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":[744,1756,135,36],"class_list":["post-44978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-fsa","tag-japan","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978","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=44978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44980,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978\/revisions\/44980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}