OKX Waves In Australia Under A Local Regulated Entity

OKX Stepping Towards Launch Of Local Regulated Entity In Australia

What’s the News

OKX, a Crypto exchange is moving to Australia to expand its business through the Asia-Pacific region and focus on services under a locally regulated entity. This OKX Australian expansion comes after the company announced its intention regarding growth. Finally, after a while, the company has decided to expand its firm in Australia.

On 14 May 2024, the main sponsor of OKX, Oscar Piastri of McLaren Racing officially announced the news in the media in Sydney.  Jamie Kennedy, an OKX Australia general manager has delivered a statement regarding the platform. 

He pointed out a secure, easy-to-use, and responsive platform that includes limitless access to banking facilities along with AUD pairs with popular cryptocurrencies for the crypto users. OKX also dropped the number of trading pairs for the Australian crypto users which is 170 trading pairs. Options trading are also available to the Crypto users.

The president of OKX, Hong Fang also says that Australia has a dynamic customer base i.e. Australia has a diversified group of people who might be interested in different products & services. Some are already familiar with the cryptocurrency while others are newly entered the market and unknown to the subjects. Hence, there are varieties in Australia to offer customers diversified services.

Last year's Discussion regarding the expansion

OKX desires to open the office in March 2023 because they believe that a lot of people in Australia are interestingly fascinated about crypto and hence they saw growth prospective in the Australian market. 

Since March 20,  the cryptocurrency exchange OKX turned its attention to Australia. They shifted from two Australian companies, OKX Australia Pty Ltd and OKX Australia Financial Pty Ltd, from a business based in Seychelles.

As per the Corporations Act 2001, the local users are supposed to be taken for a suitability assessment to be named as wholesale clients under Australian law. Fang, an OKX representative praised the Australian regulators for their transparency even when they were bound by the above-mentioned legal obligations. 

OKX was forced to stop providing copy trading, yield-bearing products, and trading of specific tokens to abide by local legislation. The support for the unsupported tokens was only removed on March 20. With a daily volume of $2.8 billion, OKX is still the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by volume, behind Bybit.

Conclusion

Coin Gabbar extracted from the expansion of OKX in Australia that it will initiate a new chapter in its cryptocurrency journey with its commitment to complying with the regulator's norms and customer satisfaction. OKX is facing an innovative and crypto-friendly environment which helps in adapting and offering cutting-edge solutions to meet the needs of the cryptocurrency market.

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