Yuki Sato
Asia Policy Correspondent
Tokyo3 articles
Yuki follows crypto rulemaking in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, with a focus on how licensing regimes reshape venue behaviour.
yuki@cryptoxinsights.comAreas covered
- Japan FSA
- Korea and Singapore policy
- Hong Kong licensing
- Stablecoin licensing in Asia
Published under: Regulation, Stablecoins.
How they work
Yuki follows licensing decisions through the regulators' own registers and tracks how each new regime changes venue behaviour on the ground.
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Articles by Yuki Sato
Japan confronts the tax gaps opening up as stablecoin payroll spreads
As Japanese firms experiment with paying staff and contractors in stablecoins, industry bodies are forming tax committees to address unresolved questions on withholding, valuation timing and reporting obligations.
Hong Kong's first bank-issued regulated stablecoin reaches the market
Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing regime has produced its first live bank-backed Hong Kong dollar token, with supervised reserves and redemption obligations, and a very small number of approved issuers behind it.
Japan advances plans to supervise crypto under its securities law framework
Japan's plan to supervise crypto assets under its Financial Instruments and Exchange Act would introduce issuer disclosure requirements and insider-trading prohibitions absent from the current payments-law treatment.