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Chinese crypto exchange Huobi plans to re-enter the U.S. market, months after it shut down its business in China to comply with a regulatory crackdown.
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"I expect asset management to be a bigger business than exchange, which echoes the traditional finance market as well,” co-founder Du Jun said in a translated interview published on Tuesday at CNBC. Having an exchange is not a "necessary element" to enter the U.S., he said.
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Huobi lost about a third of its revenue from September to December 2021, when it expelled China-based accounts to comply with a Sept. 24 ban on crypto-related transactions in the country, Du said in a November interview with the Financial Times.
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Earlier in the year, after an initial crackdown from Chinese authorities in May, Huobi had scrambled to move its China staff overseas.
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Huobi Group, of which the Huobi Global exchange is part, entered the U.S. in 2018, and exited in December 2019 citing regulatory concerns. "We didn’t have a strong commitment to the market at that time and we didn’t have a good management team in the U.S.," Du said, according to CNBC.
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In 2020, Huobi Tech acquired a trust license in Nevada through a wholly owned local subsidiary. Huobi Tech is a Hong Kong-listed entity that is separate from Huobi Group. The two share a common founder, Leon Li.
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Huobi Group officially announced it set up an APAC region headquarters in Singapore in November. The company is also looking for a base in Europe.
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