Crypto Exchange Binance Halts Its Card Services in Middle East and Latin America
Binance has decided to discontinue card services for its consumers in Latin America and Middle Eastern region. The firm has maintained that revocation of this option is going to impact less than 1% of its total clientele.
Binance allows its consumers to order a debit card from their exchange accounts. However, the firm has decided to discontinue the service for their consumers in the aforementioned region halting from September 21st effectively.
The firm has finalized the decision on 24th August maintain that the little demand for the product in the markets. Binance debit card allow the holders to make crypto transactions for daily purchases and dealings.
Binance card holders can make payments at 60 million merchants around the globe. On the other hand, the consumers who are present in territories outside of Middle East and Latin America are going to be able to access the Binance debit card as usual business.
Binance has suspended its card services for its Latin American consumers and it has focused on Binance Pay going active for Brazilian consumers. Binance Pay is a transactions channel and it is borderless, contactless, and safe payments options. However, it is a payments plug for cryptocurrencies.
Binance Pay is free to use and access and currently supporting transactions across 70 digital assets. The consumers on the platform are able to conduct and complete crypto-based transactions in the span of a few seconds.
Binance has ensured that around 22 million active users are accessing this service. Thus far, Binance Pay has processed around $98 billion worth of virtual currency transactions. According to Guilherme Nazar, Binance Pay has become a choice for commercial firms that are able to make free and quick business transactions using this protocol.
At the same time, he mentioned that introduction of Binance Pay in Brazil is good since the nation has shown one of the highest percentage of crypto dealings recently.
Binance to Face Regulatory Challenges in Latin America
Binance has managed to make considerable progress regardless of its regulatory issues in many territories. However, the firm has also faced regulatory troubles in Latin American nations concerning compliance and scrutiny.
To this effect, London-based credit card services provider Checkout.com severed ties with Binance exchange on account of concerns regarding money-laundering and compliance control.
At the same time, Binance officials are mulling over taking the legal action route to deal with payment constraints it is facing in USA and other national territories. Before working out the matter, Binance has decided to discontinue the crypto payment features namely Bitfinity and Binance Connect services.
At the same time, Binance has maintained that it had to revoke the card on account of service provider discontinuing the contract.
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