Binance to Stop Accepting New U.K. Users to Comply With Ad Rules

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Binance volition halt accepting caller U.K. users starting Monday successful bid to comply with the country's crypto selling rules, the institution said successful a blog post.

Under the caller authorities – which kicked successful connected Oct.8 – firms that are registered with the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) tin o.k. their ain ads. Failing that, companies tin enlist authorized entities to o.k. ads for them.

While Binance partnered with a steadfast called Rebuildingsociety.com up of the rules coming into effect to person its promos and ads approved successful the U.K., the FCA said past week that the latter was not authorized to greenlight crypto ads.

"We are moving intimately with the FCA to guarantee that our users are not harmed by these developments and are looking to find different suitable FCA authorized steadfast to o.k. our fiscal promotions arsenic soon arsenic possible," the speech said.

Existing U.K. users volition inactive person entree to services if they person completed the "Investor Declaration and Appropriateness Test" but volition not beryllium allowed to entree immoderate caller products and services during this period, the institution said.

UPDATE (Oct. 16, 15:28 UTC): Adds item astir existing U.K. customers successful past paragraph.

Edited by Sandali Handagama.

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