NYDFS will charge cryptocurrency companies for supervision

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said April 17 that it volition enforce supervision charges connected crypto firms.

NYDFS introduces regularisation allowing charges

Adrienne Harris, NYDFS Superintendent of Financial Services, said:

“This regularisation provides the Department with further tools and resources to modulate the virtual currency manufacture present … arsenic innovators make caller products and usage cases for integer assets.”

According to the announcement, the caller regularisation volition let the NYDFS to cod supervisory costs from virtual companies licensed nether the state’s Bitlicense.

Elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal has quoted statements from Harris suggesting that fees volition beryllium determined based connected the complexity and size of the applicable cryptocurrency company. Companies volition beryllium billed 5 times per fiscal year.

Licensed companies successful different areas of the fiscal sector, specified arsenic those moving successful the banking and security industries, already wage the aforesaid costs to the NYDFS.

Harris said that the alteration successful argumentation would let companies to enactment much intimately with the NYDFS done supervision and examination. This volition assistance companies observe issues sooner and volition supply protections to consumers, she explained.

Revenue gained from the fees volition besides let the NYDFS to prosecute much staff.

New York has strict crypto policies

Despite the regulator’s affirmative framing of the change, New York is recognized for its strict regulations astir cryptocurrency. To date, conscionable 33 companies person obtained a New York virtual currency licence (aka “Bitlicense”) oregon a related charter.

Those strict policies widen to regulatory actions. In January, the NYDFS settled with Coinbase for $100 cardinal implicit its insufficient AML requirements. Meanwhile, the New York Attorney General’s bureau has precocious filed charges against crypto companies that are not registered with the state, including CoinEx and KuCoin.

Additional fees, specified arsenic those announced today, could discourage companies with less resources from attempting to run successful the state.

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