The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has received about 20 applications since opening for licenses a few weeks ago, with more expected before the deadline of Nov. 30, FSCA Commissioner Unathi Kamlana said in an interview. The regulator plans to take"enforcement action" that could see the firms being closed down or fined, if they continue to operate without a license past the deadline, Kamlana said.
"There is potentially serious harm to financial customers when using crypto products, and therefore it makes sense for us to introduce the regulatory framework," Kamlana said in Pretoria."Time will tell the effectiveness of our measures, and we will continue to work together with the industry to refine and make changes where and if necessary." that digital asset exchanges secure licenses.
Regulators and policymakers across the world have been tightening rules governing the cryptocurrency sector, following a string of company collapses which culminated in the bankruptcy of Bahamas-based exchange FTX. In April, European lawmakers to the EU’s Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, a law that will give the bloc its first rules for the crypto industry, while last month Hong Kong implemented new regulations to license exchanges.
Over the past few years, South Africa has been the backdrop to several of the world’s largest crypto scams that resulted in the disappearance of billions of dollars in investments. This includes the from a platform called Africrypt which was run by the Cajee brothers and fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme Mirror Trading International Proprietary.
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