Justin Sun’s US fraud charges could hamper Huobi’s license application in Hong Kong

Lawyers believe regulators will be hard pressed to approve Huobi's VASP license due to allegations of misconduct.

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FIU issues notice to Binance, 8 other offshore crypto platforms, writes to MeitY for blocking of URLs

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Finance Ministry has issued show cause notices to nine offshore cryptocurrency and virtual digital assets platforms, like Binance and Kucoin, for non-compliance with anti-money laundering law. The FIU has also written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to block the URLs of these nine entities that are operating illegally without complying with the provisions of the PML Act in India.

Apart from Binance and Kucoin, the other virtual digital assets service providers (VDA SP) who have been issued notice for not registering as reporting entities with the FIU-India are Huobi, Kraken, Gate.io, Bittrex, Bitstamp, MEXC Global, and Bitfenex.
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