U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said it will continue operating in Canada and complying with tougher rules set by the country’s financial regulator, the Canadian Securities Administrators. Kraken has filed a pre-registration application with the Ontario Securities Commission as it works toward becoming a registered “restricted dealer” across Canada, the company said in a press release on Thursday. Canada has tightened its rules governing crypto exchanges and set a deadline for crypto companies to commit to enhanced pre-registration requirements, causing some big firms to exit the country’s market – OKX, Deribit and Blockchain.com among them – while others say they will remain. A restricted dealer in Canada is one that doesn’t fit into a category of other kinds of dealers, which are entities that trade securities for their own accounts or the accounts of others.
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