Japan to ban insider trading using cryptocurrencies

Proposed legal revision would define crypto assets as financial products

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Japan's Financial Services Agency aims to define cryptocurrencies as financial products under the law. (Source photos by Nikkei and Reuters) 

TAKAKO GAKUTO

TOKYO -- Japan is poised to categorize cryptocurrency assets as financial products under the law, expanding the scope of insider trading restrictions to include such assets, Nikkei has learned.

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