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The Moscow Exchange is working to integrate cryptocurrency trading within the framework of new Russian legislation, which allows the use of existing trade organizer licenses for transactions with digital currencies.
The Moscow Exchange plans to provide the opportunity to trade cryptocurrency from December 1, Boris Blokhin, senior managing director for sales and business development of the Moscow Exchange, told reporters.
“We are already actively testing cryptocurrency trading, it started a week ago, where transactions are being concluded. We invite trading participants to testing,” he said on the sidelines of the Sber investment forum “The Real Future.”
According to him, transactions with digital currencies are being tested within the stock market. “This is a test environment for providing digital currency trading, testing the functionality that will later be available in an industrial environment,” he explained.
“We will carry out testing right up to the launch. We plan to provide such an opportunity on December 1 - to trade cryptocurrency within the framework of the new legislation,” said Blokhin.
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