{"id":50906,"date":"2025-10-03T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=50906"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:31:41","slug":"nomura-owned-laser-digital-plans-crypto-license-application-in-japan-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=50906","title":{"rendered":"Nomura-Owned Laser Digital Plans Crypto License Application in Japan: Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Laser Digital, a subsidiary of the Nomura Group, is planning to expand its crypto offering in Japan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-03\/nomura-unit-laser-targets-japan-s-booming-crypto-trading-market\">Bloomberg reported on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Switzerland-based unit is in pre-consultation talks with Japan&#8217;s Financial Services Agency (FSA) as it prepares to apply for a crypto trading license to offer services to institutional clients, according to the report citing CEO Jez Mohideen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our entry into Japan reflects our optimism in the Japanese digital-asset ecosystem,&#8221; Mohideen said.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes in the same week that Tokyo-based Nomura&#8217;s rival Daiwa Securities has begun allowing clients to offer bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/daiwa-securities-launches-crypto-backed-103012264.html\">as collateral to borrow yen<\/a>, demonstrating the convergence of digital and traditional finance (TradFi) in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Laser did not immediately respond to CoinDesk&#8217;s request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser Digital, a subsidiary of the Nomura Group, is planning to expand its crypto offering in Japan, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The Switzerland-based unit is in pre-consultation talks with Japan&#8217;s Financial Services Agency (FSA) as it prepares to apply for a crypto trading license to offer services to institutional clients, according to the report citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-50906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}