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Last week, the New York State Department of Financial Services, or NYDFS, proposed changes around its state-wide BitLicense legal guidelines. Gemini, a crypto exchange calling New York home, sees the NYDFS' move as a positive.Gemini's chief compliance officer, Noah Perlman, told Cryptox:"The proposed conditional licensing framework is another step the
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Today marks five years of the BitLicense, the controversial crypto safety rail enacted by New York State’s top financial watchdog. In half a decade only 25 licenses have been doled out, including two to a firm associated with the BitLicense’s architect, former head of the New York State Department of
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The guidance released Wednesday includes two specific updates that the public can comment on: Any coins that the regulator approves for listing in New York can be listed by any exchange that operates in the state, as long as they provide notice to NYDFS, and the regulator will publish a
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California-based financial firm SoFi has acquired a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the regulator said in a statement on Dec. 3.SoFi is now one of 24 crypto-related firms that have obtained a BitLicense since 2015, Bloomberg Law’s crypto reporter Lydia Beyoud tweeted the
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“Putting our members’ interests first is our top priority at SoFi,” he said. “That includes both offering individuals the products they want, like cryptocurrency within SoFi Invest, as well as protecting them, through a solid regulatory framework like that created by the New York State Department of Financial Services.” Source
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There may be a way for cryptocurrency businesses to get around New York's notoriously hard-to-get BitLicense, and it runs through Wyoming. Source
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