Japan's Nomura Secures License as First New Crypto Exchange in Four Years
Nomura Holdings' Laser Digital has become the first new crypto asset exchange service provider in Japan in nearly four years, receiving regulatory approval. This marks a significant shift in Japan's crypto landscape, allowing one of its major financial institutions to engage in digital asset trading under a new financial-instruments framework.
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Japan’s Crypto Freeze Cracks as Nomura Wins Coveted New License
Nomura Holdings’ Laser Digital Japan has cracked Japan’s crypto licensing wall, ending a roughly four-year drought without a new industry entrant and planting one of the country’s financial heavyweights squarely inside regulated digital-asset trading. Laser Digital Japan said this week that it completed registration as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider under Japan’s Payment Services […]
Japan registers Nomura’s Laser Digital as first new crypto entrant in four years
Nomura-backed Laser Digital has become Japan’s first newly registered crypto asset exchange service provider in about four years, securing approval as the country prepares to move digital assets under a financial-instruments framework. According to Laser Digital, its Japanese subsidiary has…