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.
Proposed legal revision would define crypto assets as financial products

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