Atsumi & Sakai

KYC, AML and CFT will take centre stage again in Japan as legal changes strive to strengthen safeguards, writes Takafumi Ochiai of Atsumi & Sakai

In 2019 the diet passed a bill that proposes to overhaul parts of the cryptoasset regulatory framework and revisit definitions of key terms, such as ‘virtual currency’. Takafumi Ochiai of Atsumi & Sakai investigates

Stablecoins are full of promise and offer answers to many of the shortcomings of dominant but volatile virtual currencies, writes Ryosuke Oue of Atsumi & Sakai