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    Nigeria’s SEC declares local Binance operations ‘illegal’

    June 11, 2023
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    *A smartphone with displayed Binance logo and representation of cryptocurrencies are placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken, June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

    Lagos — The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Nigeria’s markets regulator, has ordered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying a local unit that courted Nigerian investors through a website was illegal.

    “Binance Nigeria Limited is hereby directed to immediately stop soliciting Nigerian investors in any form whatsoever,” SEC, said in a statement dated June 9. It said the company was not registered or regulated, making it illegal.

    Binance could not be immediately reached for comment.

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week sued Binance and Coinbase for allegedly breaching its rules.

    Last year, Nigeria’s SEC published a set of regulations for digital assets, signaling Africa’s most populous country was trying to find a middle ground between an outright ban on crypto assets and their unregulated use.

    That was after Nigeria’s central bank in 2021 banned banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions in digital currencies.

    Nigeria’s young, tech-savvy population has eagerly adopted cryptocurrencies, for example using peer-to-peer trading offered by crypto exchanges to avoid the financial sector ban.

    *MacDonald Dzirutwe, Editing: Helen Popper – Reuters

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