Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings issued an official statement noting that Ripple XRP is a cryptocurrency asset under Japanese law.
SBI Holdings, a major Japanese financial services company, has released an official statement regarding the litigation against Ripple by the US Securities Commission (SEC). The group said XRP is called a “cryptocurrency asset” under Japanese law.
Last week, the SEC accused Ripple and two of its executives in a lawsuit that rekindled debate over whether XRP is safe or not. The federal agency said Ripple, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen raised more than $ 1.3 billion in an unregistered standing offering of “securities.”
SBI referred to a December 24 column by Sadakazu Osaka of Nomura Research Institute and hinted that XRP is not a security under Japanese law, but a “cryptocurrency asset”. SBI also quoted a researcher and said XRP will continue to be traded on cryptocurrency exchanges as “crypto assets” rather than “securities” in Japan.
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