VASPs
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Binance is making moves, from receiving a new license in Dubai to switching its SAFU fund to USDC
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Kraken now has registrations in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Ireland leading up to the implementation of EU’s MiCA regulation
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Coinbase and Gemini have made the country one of its strategic locations five years after Ireland’s government launched an “Innovation Hub”
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Coinbase can offer crypto custody, crypto buying and selling and crypto trading as part of the registration
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The crypto custodian is set to offer institutional staking and collateral management in the region via its Komainu Connect platform
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Japan has continued to ratchet up its standards on crypto regulation for roughly two years in response to criticisms levied against it
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Recent turmoil in the crypto market has accelerated the need for tougher crypto regulation, according to US think tank analysts
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Mastercard is using data from CipherTrace to allow card issuers to assess risk profiles of over 2,400 virtual asset service providers
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The country is a well-known hub for trading, with about 3.8% of the population owning some form of cryptoasset
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