Autoritatea italiană de reglementare a valorilor mobiliare: Binance „neautorizat” să furnizeze servicii de investiții

Italy’s securities regulator, the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob), has a anunțat that crypto exchange Binance is “not authorized to provide investment services and activities in Italy.”

In a statement accompanying the announcement, the Consob notes that the exchange’s website, Binance.com, includes sections previously written in Italian describing derivatives and stock tokens.

Consob urges investors to “exercise the utmost caution” in transactions relating to cryptoassets, and reminds investors that they could lose all their money.

Reacția Binance din partea autorităților de reglementare

The Italian regulator’s move follows a recent series of actions taken by regulators around the world against Binance.

Last month, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority issued a avertisment consumator against Binance’s English incorporation, Binance Markets Limited. Although UK customers are still able to trade cryptocurrencies on Binance, the exchange has struggled to maintain its fiat payment channels, with several banks including Santander și Barclays blocarea plăților către bursă și suspendarea depozitelor și retragerilor în GBP. Binance are, de asemenea suspendarea depozitelor bancare în euro SEPA.

In the same month, Japan’s finance regulator, the FSA, warned that the crypto exchange is functioneaza fara inregistrare.

Regulators have taken issue with Binance’s approach to anti-money laundering regulations, and particularly with the exchange’s apparent lack of a headquarters; the UK’s FCA has stabilit that it has “concerns” with the former and that the latter is a “huge issue.”

For its part, Binance argues that it has no headquarters, with CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao telling decriptaţi that, “Our leadership team are not sitting in one office, we don’t have a clear place where we can go, by most people’s normal definitions of a headquarters that we can call a headquarters. So when people ask me, I don’t want to give them a wrong answer just to satisfy their definition.”

Bursa cripto s-a mutat din China în 2017, mai întâi în Japonia și apoi în Taiwan, înainte de a se îndrepta spre Malta. Dar în 2020, Malta clarificat că Binance nu este autorizat să opereze acolo. În timp ce acesta înregistrată Binance Holdings Limited in the Cayman Islands, in July 2021, the islands’ Monetary Authority said that the company is neautorizat pentru a face afaceri în jurisdicția sa.

Într-o declaraţie last week, Zhao committed to localizing operations to “comply with local regulations,” while arguing that “compliance is a journey.” The company has taken steps to își întărește echipa de conformitate în ultimele săptămâni, l-a angajat pe Jonathan Farnell, fostul eToro, ca nou director de conformitate.

Sursa: https://decrypt.co/75984/italian-securities-regulator-binance-not-authorized-provide-investment-services