Taiwan's regulators just locked in a mandatory information-sharing rule for domestic crypto transfers starting October. Any transaction above NT$30,000, roughly $930, now needs sender and beneficiary details verified across platforms before it goes through.
The Financial Supervisory Commission dropped draft amendments this week that flip the script on how VASPs operate locally. Previously platforms could just accept whatever customer data arrived from a sending exchange. Now they have to cross-check it against their own records. Individual senders need to hand over date of birth and residential address. Companies have to provide official ID numbers and registered business addresses.
The threshold itself marks where friction kicks in. Transfers under NT$30,000 slip through with basic info. Go over, and you hit the verification wall. Receiving platforms can no longer be passive. They validate everything before the transfer settles.
This is phase one. The FSC plans to extend the same rules to cross-border VASP transfers by the end of 2027, which means domestic and overseas exchanges will operate under the same Travel Rule framework. Taiwan gets 30 days of public consultation before rules finalize, but the October rollout looks locked.
The move builds on Taiwan's Virtual Asset Service Act that went live in July with full licensing requirements for crypto businesses. The FSC is essentially treating crypto platforms like traditional financial institutions now, requiring the same customer due diligence that banks do for wire transfers. It's a harder baseline than most Asian regulators have pushed so far.
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