The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted financial services provider Taurus SA a securities firm license to operate a regulated marketplace for digital assets. The marketplace is intended to support any type of digital asset. With the new marketplace, the Swiss company aims to meet the growing demand from banks and issuers for […]
Since the summer of 2019, crypto company Bitcoin Suisse has been waiting for its Swiss banking license. However, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has classified the application as not approvable as things stand today. The company has now withdrawn their application. As early as July 2019, Crypto Valley veteran Bitcoin Suisse submitted an application to […]
A start-up from Crypto Valley enables the first automated transaction of Crypto Assets between two financial intermediaries in Switzerland, in compliance with the Money Laundering Ordinance of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. In June 2019, the FATF, the global supervisory authority for money laundering, published its guidelines for handling virtual currencies. These include […]
