New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 23 - FINANCIAL SERVICES
Chapter I - Regulations of the Superintendent of Financial Services
Part 200 - VIRTUAL CURRENCIES
Section 200.9 - Custody and protection of customer assets

Current through Register Vol. 45, No. 52, December 27, 2023

(a) Each Licensee shall maintain a surety bond or trust account in United States dollars for the benefit of its customers in such form and amount as is acceptable to the superintendent for the protection of the Licensee's customers. To the extent a Licensee maintains a trust account in accordance with this section, such trust account must be maintained with a Qualified Custodian.

(b) To the extent a Licensee stores, holds, or maintains custody or control of Virtual Currency on behalf of another Person, such Licensee shall hold Virtual Currency of the same type and amount as that which is owed or obligated to such other Person.

(c) Each Licensee is prohibited from selling, transferring, assigning, lending, hypothecating, pledging, or otherwise using or encumbering assets, including Virtual Currency, stored, held, or maintained by, or under the custody or control of, such Licensee on behalf of another Person except for the sale, transfer, or assignment of such assets at the direction of such other Person.

Adopted New York State Register June 24, 2015/Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, eff. 6/24/2015

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