2 years ago
The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has issued an enforcement announcement to implicit 50 companies that person advertised cryptocurrency services, advising them to reappraisal their ads to marque definite they comply with caller guidance.
"This is simply a ‘red alert’ precedence contented for america and we’ve precocious banned respective crypto ads for misleading consumers and for being socially irresponsible," the ASA said.
The caller guidance requires advertisers to intelligibly authorities that crypto is unregulated successful the U.K. and that the "value of investments are adaptable and tin spell down." Additionally, ads indispensable not "state oregon connote that concern decisions are trivial, simple, casual oregon suitable for anyone" or "imply a consciousness of urgency to bargain oregon make a fearfulness of missing out, oregon that investments are ‘low risk’."
Companies advertizing crypto services person until May 2 to guarantee their ads conscionable this guidance, aft which non-compliant advertisers volition beryllium reported to the fiscal watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
CoinDesk has contacted Coinbase, eToro, Luno and Crypto.com for remark connected the caller guidance, but had not received a effect by property time. Luno, similar CoinDesk, is owned by Digital Currency Group.
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Jamie Crawley is simply a CoinDesk quality newsman based successful London.
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