In response to receiving a business improvement order from the Financial Services Agency on April 22, Bitfryer, a major exchange company in the virtual currency, strengthened its policy to suspend the acceptance of new customers such as opening accounts.
We will use management resources allocated for acquisition of new customers etc. to improve the internal management system such as compliance (compliance) and hurry to rebuild.
On Friday morning, the Financial Services Agency issued a business improvement order to the bit flyer who had entered the on-site inspection, saying that the internal management system such as measures against money laundering was inadequate.
The bit flyer will not stop accepting virtual currency trading of about 2 million existing customers, but temporarily stop accepting new customers.
We will resume acceptance as soon as the review of the structure based on the improvement order is completed.
In addition to the bit flyer, the Financial Services Agency issued business improvement orders to other virtual currency exchange companies based on the revised fund settlement law such as QUOINE and bit bank.
The Financial Services Agency considers that the management system of each company is not catching up with the number of customers and the expansion of assets under custody, and there is a possibility that the move like a bit flyer will expand in the future.
仮想通貨の大手交換会社ビットフライヤーが22日、金融庁から業務改善命令を受けたことに対応し、口座開設など新規顧客の受け入れを停止する方針を固めた。 新規顧客の獲得などに割いていた経営資源を法令順守（コンプライアンス）など内部管理体制の整備に回し、立て直しを急ぐ。
金融庁はマネーロンダリング対策など内部管理体制が不十分だったとして22日午前、立ち入り検査に入っていたビットフライヤーに業務改善命令を出した。
ビットフライヤーは約200万人の既存顧客の仮想通貨売買の受け付けは止めないが、新規顧客の受け入れを一時的に止める。
改善命令に基づく体制見直しが完了し次第、受け入れを再開する。
金融庁はビットフライヤーに加え、ＱＵＯＩＮＥやビットバンクなど改正資金決済法に基づく他の仮想通貨交換会社にも業務改善命令を出した。
金融庁は顧客数や預かり資産の拡大に各社の管理体制が追いついていないとみており、ビットフライヤーのような動きが今後拡大する可能性がある。