Nomura-backed Laser Digital has become Japan’s first newly registered crypto asset exchange service provider in about four years, securing approval as the country prepares to move digital assets under a financial-instruments framework.
Summary
- Laser Digital has become Japan’s first newly registered crypto asset exchange service provider in about four years.
- The Nomura-backed firm will initially provide liquidity services to domestic virtual asset service providers.
- Laser Digital plans to expand into institutional digital asset trading, though no launch date has been announced.
- Japan is preparing to bring crypto under its financial instruments framework, with new rules…
