The Japan Crypto Eleven
On September 29, eleven cryptocurrency exchanges were officially licensed in Japan. Most reports seemed to indicate that the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued the approvals at the national level, however, upon closer inspection of the published licenses, it appears that the application process also ran through the regional financial bureaus for Kanto (Tokyo) and Kinki (Osaka), respectively. Following an application deadline earlier in the year, all submissions were evaluated, and during the inspection process 12 exchanges that had been previously operating shut down. 17 others are still being processed. If you kept count, that makes a total of 40 crypto exchanges.
Hardly any report listed the eleven licensees, so if you were bothered by the same question I had, here they are, including the cryptocurrencies they have been registered with. Two of them, GMO Coin and Money Partners, are registered as retail foreign exchange brokers.
Lastly, if you can make it to our next Tokyo FinTech Meetup on October 24, 2017, Mike Kayamori, Co-Founder and CEO of QUOINE will be the keynote speaker.
Bit Bank Corporation
ビットバンク株式会社
BCC/BTC/ETH/LTC/MONA/XRP
Bit Point Japan
株式会社ビットポイントジャパン
BCC/BTC/ETH/LTC/XRP
Bit Trade
ビットトレード株式会社
BCC/BTC/ETH/LTC/MONA/XRP
BitFlyer
株式会社bitFlyer
BCH/BTC/ETC/ETH
BTC Box
BTCボックス株式会社
BCC/BTC
Fiscal Virtual Currency Exchange (Osaka)
株式会社フィスコ仮想通貨取引所
BCH/BTC/CICC/FSCC/MONA/NCXC
GMO Coin
GMOコイン株式会
BTC
Money Partners
株式会社マネーパートナーズ
BTC
QUOINE
QUOINE株式会社
BCH/BTC/ETH
SBI Virtual Currencies
SBIバーチャル・カレンシーズ株式会社
BTC
Tech Bureau (Osaka)
テックビューロ株式会社
BCH/BCY/BTC/CICC/FSCC/MONA/NCXC/PEPECASH/SJCX/XCP/XEM/ZAIF/ZEN
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