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South Korea is introducing new legal guidelines to guard shoppers of monetary merchandise and to manage cryptocurrency companies.
The crypto laws are aimed toward stopping cash laundering and different criminality.
Kim Sung-min studies.
Ranging from Thursday, new laws to carry cryptocurrencies underneath a authorized framework will take impact in South Korea.
The “Reporting and Utilizing Specified Monetary Transaction Data” legislation goals to forestall cash laundering and different unlawful actions within the cryptocurrency market.
The legislation applies to the digital asset service suppliers comparable to Bithumb and Upbit,… not particular person buyers.
It consists of all cryptocurrency trade operators which can be engaged within the shopping for and promoting, trade and safekeeping of digital property.
Companies are required to report back to the Monetary Intelligence Unit the nation’s anti-money-laundering company.
They’re additionally topic to anti-money laundering necessities comparable to verifying clients’ identities and submitting studies on suspicious transactions.
Belongings which have excessive danger of cash laundering like ‘darkish’ cash which do not present their full transaction data might be banned.
Additionally coming into impact on the twenty fifth is the Monetary Client Safety Act.
The legislation goals to broaden the rights of shoppers whereas making finance corporations extra accountable for the gross sales of monetary merchandise.
It makes it simpler for shoppers to cancel funding, mortgage and insurance coverage contracts with out monetary penalties.
Monetary product sellers are topic to stricter laws associated to suitability, appropriateness, product descriptions, honest enterprise practices, affordable suggestions and commercials.
For instance when a vendor is accused of inflicting injury by violating product description guidelines, the duty for proof in compensation instances has been shifted to the sellers.
Kim Sung-min, Arirang Information
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2021-03-25, 12:00 (KST)
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