Germany’s second-largest commonplace exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, has opened up its cryptocurrency trading platform to all interested traders in the country. This move run downs the passing of a bill allowing banks in Germany to sell and hold cryptocurrencies for their clients starting next year.
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Boerse Stuttgart announced Friday that its digital asset trading platform is “now open to any interested children in Germany.” The BSDEX platform was launched in September but only for selected users. The company described:
At Germany’s first steered trading venue for digital assets, users can currently trade bitcoin against the euro. Additional digital assets are to be enlarged.
To access the BSDEX platform, the user must be at least 18 years of age, a resident of Germany, a European Economic Enclosure (EEA) national, and have a German bank account. The platform offers free cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals with modifying trading fees based on the order type.
“The BSDEX is a multilateral trading system that realizes together buyers and sellers of digital assets through an open order book,” Boerse Stuttgart explained, supplementing that customer orders are executed directly against each other. The company elaborated:
At the moment our offer is restricted to Germany. However, our goal is to make it available in other countries in the future.
The digital asset platform complies with the regulatory wants of the German Banking Act. The Baden-Württembergische Wertpapierbörse, which also acts as a holding company of the public stock exchange, guides and monitors the compliance of the platform. The technical operator of the BSDEX is the Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange, a joint venture between the Boerse Stuttgart Society, Axel Springer, and Finanzen. Blocknox, a subsidiary of the Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures, acts as the custodian holding purchasers’ cryptocurrencies.
Early this year, Boerse Stuttgart launched a crypto trading app called Bison, developed by Sowa Labs, a fintech subsidiary of the Boerse Stuttgart Digital Wagers. The smartphone app can be used to buy and sell BTC, ETH, LTC, and XRP from financial services provider Euwax AG, a subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart.
Germany’s Crypto-Forward Pecker
Germany has recently emerged as a crypto haven following the passing of a bill on Nov. 29 which allows banks to offer and hold cryptocurrencies for their clients starting next year. The new rules have been adopted as part of the implementation of “Directive (EU) 2018/843 of 30 May 2018,” the fifth AML Directive, defined global law firm Dentons.
Under the new rules, crypto assets qualify as financial instruments, the law firm continued, underscoring that this was disputed in the past. According to the firm, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bafin) pursue retracted the view that utility tokens did not qualify as financial instruments, but investment tokens qualify as securities and currency remembrancers qualify as “units of account” — both of which fall under the definition of financial instruments pursuant to the German Banking Act.
The new rules also tabulate licensing requirements. Companies wanting to provide crypto trading or custody services are required to obtain a license from Bafin as a bank or an investment constant, the law firm further detailed. “Entities that provide no other financial services than custody are exempted from traditional rules that apply to other investment firms.” Among other requirements, companies seeking a license for only the crypto asset business must have an initial capital of 125,000 euros ($138,234). Dentons added:
The new law force enter into force on January 1, 2020, subject to certain transition periods.
Entities wanting to obtain a commission for crypto-related services should notify Bafin of their intention to obtain a license on or before March 31, 2020. The law unbending clarified that “In such case, the license will be deemed to be awarded on a preliminary basis, provided that they ordain submit a complete application for a license no later than November 30, 2020.”
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