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Canadian regulator fines Bybit and Kucoin for violating securities laws

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Canada’s Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued monetary penalties towards Bybit and KuCoin.

Canadian regulator fines Bybit and Kucoin for violating securities laws
Canadian regulator fines Bybit and Kucoin for violating securities laws

In an official announcement on June 22, Canada’s primary monetary regulator punished two cryptocurrency exchanges, Bybit and KuCoin, with enforcement actions for failing to comply with securities laws in the U.S. Ontario. The OSC has established that each exchanges operate unregistered cryptocurrency trading platforms.

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OSC Holds Global Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms Responsible: https://t.co/TPC9mtvTRE pic.twitter.com/Nl9pGP0U3j

– OSC News (@OSC_News) June 22, 2022

Bybit cooperated in the investigation and reached an agreement with the regulatory authority. As portion of the deal, Bybit had to shell out a virtually $ one.9 million fine to the OSC and agreed to perform with the company to get legitimate registration. In the meantime, Bybit will not accept new accounts for shoppers in Ontario or industry its companies in the region. Recently, Bybit also reduce workers to sustain business operations due to the declining industry scenario.

Unlike Bybit, KuCoin was accused of not cooperating with the OSC investigation. As a outcome, the Seychelles-primarily based stock exchange was completely banned from participating in the capital markets of Ontario. The OSC fined the exchange of $ one.five million and $ 77,000 in expenditures relevant to the investigation.

Jeff Kehoe, OSC Executive Director, stated:

“Foreign cryptocurrency trading platforms that want to operate in Ontario will have to stick to the principles or encounter punitive action. The success launched these days will be a clear indication that we refuse to tolerate non-compliance with Ontario securities laws. “

The regulator’s move is the newest in a series of warnings and regulatory action taken towards a lot of cryptocurrency exchanges that present companies to Ontarians. In March 2021, the OSC issued a deadline for registering cryptocurrency corporations working in the province to comply with securities laws. According to the regulator, crypto platforms will have to end doing work in Ontario if the enterprise does not comply.

Indeed, the OSC has currently initiated regulatory action towards nicely-recognized cryptocurrency exchanges this kind of as Binance, Poloniex, and OKX for very similar violations of securities laws. As of June one, there are only eight corporations listed as legally registered cryptocurrencies in Ontario, which includes some prominent names this kind of as Fidelity Digital Assets, Bitvo (exchange exchange), acquired by FTX on June 18) and Bitbuy.

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