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February 26, 2018, 01:21:32 PM
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South Korea’s financial watchdog has reportedly briefed a major global anti-money laundering body of its rules for domestic cryptocurrency transactions.

South Korean authorities, who have notably adopted a friendly stance on non-anonymous cryptocurrency trading in the country this year, have briefed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of South Korea’s domestic guidelines for cryptocurrency transactions, Yonhap reports.

Established in 1989, Paris-based FATF is a global intergovernmental body tasked to combat money laundering and terrorism financing (AML/CTF) with 37-member states from all six populated continents in the world. In a meeting attended by all members last week, South Korea’s newly implemented AML guidelines for domestic cryptocurrency trading ‘were the first to be drawn up’ during the members’ discussion, the report revealed, citing the Financial Services Commission (FSC).

As Korea’s financial regulator, the FSC enforced a complete ban on anonymous trading of cryptocurrencies to introduce a new ‘real name trading system’ wherein cryptocurrency traders are required to use their real names with their crypto accounts and their bank accounts. In essence, any new cryptocurrency purchases or withdrawals in fiat will require traders and adopters to comply with the new know-your-customer (KYC) rules that kicked in on January 30.

Since then, Korean financial regulators have publicly stated that the government will support ‘normal [non-anonymous] transactions’ of cryptocurrencies, going so far as to call for the ‘normalization’ of cryptocurrencies in the country.

“The whole world is now framing the outline (for cryptocurrency) and therefore (the government) should work more on normalization than increasing regulation,” South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) chief Choe Heung-sik told reporters in a briefing last week.

Those rules are now being briefed to some of the world’s largest countries and economies, in what could ultimately pave the way for wider adoption and trading of cryptocurrencies globally under widely-accepted KYC norms.

https://www.ccn.com/global-money-launder-watchdog-briefed-crypto-friendly-rules-south-korea/
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February 26, 2018, 07:53:58 PM
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It would be tough for consensus to emerge on a contentious topic like regulating cryptocurrencies. In the fiat world, the big economies have taken the lead and established a broad framework for preventing money laundering. Tax havens which promise secrecy have more or less disappeared, because other countries have threatened to block them if they don't comply. In the cryptoworld, it would be tough for universal rules to be applied.


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February 27, 2018, 07:21:23 AM
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The pressure from the government and international organizations aiming to control money laundering is now truly affecting cryptocurrency transactions. Personally, I am not against KYC though we also have to be careful that those information are not divulge to the public. Maybe there is at the same time the need for a tougher law on information leak. Privacy have to be protected at all levels while still complying with anti-money laundering laws. The balancing act maybe hard to implement but if all parties are working with the same mindset then maybe all of these developments can be working positively for the many cryptocurrency users and traders.
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February 27, 2018, 10:26:57 AM
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South Korea’s financial watchdog has reportedly briefed a major global anti-money laundering body of its rules for domestic cryptocurrency transactions.

South Korean authorities, who have notably adopted a friendly stance on non-anonymous cryptocurrency trading in the country this year, have briefed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of South Korea’s domestic guidelines for cryptocurrency transactions, Yonhap reports.

Established in 1989, Paris-based FATF is a global intergovernmental body tasked to combat money laundering and terrorism financing (AML/CTF) with 37-member states from all six populated continents in the world. In a meeting attended by all members last week, South Korea’s newly implemented AML guidelines for domestic cryptocurrency trading ‘were the first to be drawn up’ during the members’ discussion, the report revealed, citing the Financial Services Commission (FSC).

As Korea’s financial regulator, the FSC enforced a complete ban on anonymous trading of cryptocurrencies to introduce a new ‘real name trading system’ wherein cryptocurrency traders are required to use their real names with their crypto accounts and their bank accounts. In essence, any new cryptocurrency purchases or withdrawals in fiat will require traders and adopters to comply with the new know-your-customer (KYC) rules that kicked in on January 30.

Since then, Korean financial regulators have publicly stated that the government will support ‘normal [non-anonymous] transactions’ of cryptocurrencies, going so far as to call for the ‘normalization’ of cryptocurrencies in the country.

“The whole world is now framing the outline (for cryptocurrency) and therefore (the government) should work more on normalization than increasing regulation,” South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) chief Choe Heung-sik told reporters in a briefing last week.

Those rules are now being briefed to some of the world’s largest countries and economies, in what could ultimately pave the way for wider adoption and trading of cryptocurrencies globally under widely-accepted KYC norms.

https://www.ccn.com/global-money-launder-watchdog-briefed-crypto-friendly-rules-south-korea/

I see this as a massive breakthrough in Bitcoin because it now requires personal data information, just like when we have bank transactions. While I think the newly-adopted KYC system would help in minimizing money laundering, I think it would be detrimental to all investors considering the fact that they did not sign up for this development when they decided to invest in Bitcoin. I think, too, there was insufficient notice to the investors hence it will definitely affect what used to be their style in terms of trading and withdrawing their Bitcoins. It is absolutely prejudicial especially to those who invested quite a huge amount, taking into consideration the fact that they cannot withdraw all their Bitcoins (for fiat conversion) at once because of the limit imposed here as well.
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