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According to an announcement made in the Binance blog, the platform intends to stop trading tokenized stocks and gives its users plenty of time to close their positions.
Back in April, Chinese journalist Colin Wu provided reasons why this option may be closed by Binance in the near future.
No more tokenized stock trading on Binance
Binance team has named shifting their focus to other commercial products as the reason for ceasing to support stock token trading.
The service will be unavailable since October 14, so users have plenty of time to close their positions on tokenized stocks.
Earlier this year, the company announced that these tokens would be equal to parts of stocks, such as Tesla, etc.
EU users can move their positions to CM-Equity AG
Binance suggests that traders from European Economic Area (EEA) and those that are based in Switzerland can migrate their stock token balances onto a new CM-Equity AG portal that is to start operating soon.
CM-Equity AG, a digital asset service provider regulated by the German BaFin, is opening a new portal in September this year.
Reason why Binance is cancelling the service per Colin Wu
According to a previous tweet by Colin Wu, who covers topics related to crypto and digital exchanges, stock tokens for Binance trading were mainly provided by German companies.
In April, the German regulator BaFin warned them, saying that this new Binance service was not approved properly. Thus, back in April Wu tweeted that this stock trading may be wound down soon.
Stock tokens are unavailable for purchase on https://t.co/NCt6fJpnPc, we predicted this before. https://t.co/0uTtSMJHau https://t.co/b5I4pbDZsg
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) July 16, 2021
Binance having difficulties with global regulators
The largest crypto exchange, Binance, has recently been having difficulties is various countries, as local regulators have announced that the company is not authorized to provide services to local users.
Earlier, U.Today reported that the UK, Malta and now Italy as well, have prohibited Binance to work in their jurisdiction.
Leading UK banks have stopped cooperating with Binance as well.