Japan’s Crypto Freeze Cracks as Nomura Wins Coveted New License
Nomura Holdings’ Laser Digital Japan has cracked Japan’s crypto licensing wall, ending a roughly four-year drought without a new industry entrant and planting one of the country’s financial heavyweights squarely inside r...
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