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Securities industry may hit brakes on digital asset business, watches regulatory variables

South Korea’s securities industry is accelerating digital asset plans but is watching regulatory moves after Bithumb’s large-scale bitcoin mispayment incident. Key issues in talks on the Digital Asset Basic Act include limiting major shareholders’ stakes in exchanges to 15 to 20 percent and requiring won stablecoin issuers to be majority bank-owned. Firms are expanding tokenised securities partnerships, while some warn new rules could curb exchange investments and shift control of stablecoin payments to banks.