OKX cryptocurrency alternate has entered the ultimate stage earlier than buying a digital asset service supplier license (VASP) in Hong Kong. The crypto alternate expects the ultimate approval for a VASP license by March 2024.
In an interview, Li Zhikai, the worldwide chief business officer of OKX, mentioned that it’s actively engaged in a dialogue with the banks and is at the moment ready for the group to be issued a license and begin a enterprise. The crypto alternate has began the preparatory work, resembling expertise docking.
Hong Kong grew to become a pro-crypto nation in 2023 and introduced a licensing regime for crypto exchanges to supply their providers to retail prospects. Whereas greater than 80 crypto companies initially confirmed curiosity in opening an workplace within the nation, solely a few crypto platforms, resembling HashKey and OSL, gained the mandatory license to begin retail crypto buying and selling providers.
HashKey began providing retail crypto buying and selling providers to Hong Kong customers on Aug. 28. The regulatory physique within the nation has opened solely Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) buying and selling for retail prospects to chop again on the danger concerned with investing in new crypto tokens. The laws additionally put a 30% cap on traders that solely permits them to take a position one-third of their web earnings.
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Other than HashKey and OSL, Huobi and Gate.io have additionally utilized for retail crypto buying and selling providers and are ready for the regulatory nod. Beforehand, a Gate.io govt shared the regulatory expertise in Hong Kong and informed Cointelegraph that in contrast with different regulators, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Fee has stricter necessities for digital asset service suppliers. The regulator has made it obligatory for crypto platforms to supply insurance coverage and compensation association necessities to assist defend purchasers. Other than that, the crypto exchanges should maintain 98% of property in chilly pockets storage.
Cointelegraph reached out to OKX for its views on the regulatory expertise and expectations from the Hong Kong retail market however didn’t get an instantaneous response.
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