Japan's financial watchdog has issued business improvement orders to six licensed cryptocurrency exchanges following on-site inspections conducted over recent months.
As a result, bitFlyer has announced that it has temporarily stopped accepting new customers in order to reexamine the IDs of "Certain customers."
The firm told CoinDesk that "BitFlyer is working closely with the FSA and will resume onboarding as soon as possible."
The exchange has also provided a substantial list of coming improvements to various systems, including user protection, data protection, risk management, new token listing and more, based on the order.
As previously reported by CoinDesk, the FSA launched inspections at licensed platforms in April as part of its increasing scrutiny of domestic exchanges following the $530 million hack on Coincheck earlier this year.
Today's news confirms suggestions last week that the agency would move to force some exchanges to enhance their anti-money laundering procedures going by the FSA notice, the demands are more wide-ranging.
As a result of the orders, the six exchanges are now required to file a written report to the FSA on the progress of their system improvements by July 23.
Until they are able to meet the regulator's full requirements, the FSA said the exchanges must continue filling additional reports by the 10th of every month.
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Japan's Financial Watchdog Orders AML Shake-Up at 6 Crypto Exchanges
Published on Jun 22, 2018
by Coindesk | Published on Coinage
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