{"id":60392,"date":"2022-04-20T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60392"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:01:46","slug":"binance-us-secures-money-transmitter-license-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/binance-us-secures-money-transmitter-license-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance.US Secures Money-Transmitter License in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. arm of the Binance bitcoin exchange has received a money-transmitter license from Puerto Rico&#8217;s financial regulator.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to add another Money Transmitter License, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PuertoRico?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PuertoRico<\/a> marks our fourth in four months. We\u2019re working to acquire the few remaining licenses that will allow us to operate in all U.S. states and territories. <\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vab9BQX6Ch\">https:\/\/t.co\/vab9BQX6Ch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Vc2OEXbQw\">pic.twitter.com\/1Vc2OEXbQw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Binance.US \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@BinanceUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BinanceUS\/status\/1516434776877641730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The island territory became the fourth U.S. jurisdiction to grant Binance.US such approval in 2022. Earlier, similar decisions were made by the states of West Virginia, Connecticut and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abAfter the successful closing of the seed round, we are very pleased to accelerate the pace of obtaining this license and thank Puerto Rico for the trust,&#8221; said the company\u2019s CEO Brian Shroder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the statement, Binance.US operates in 45 states and seven territories. The platform lists more than 90 cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April 2022, the U.S. arm <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-us-raises-200-million-in-seed-round-at-a-4-5-billion-valuation\">raised $200m<\/a> at a $4.5bn valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. arm of the Binance bitcoin exchange has received a money-transmitter license from Puerto Rico&#8217;s financial regulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,36,26],"class_list":["post-60392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-regulation","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60394,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60392\/revisions\/60394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}