South Korea’s financial regulator announced hefty penalties for cryptocurrency exchanges if they fail to comply with existing anti-money laundering (AML) rules. The revision proposal will be effective from March 25th, 2021, affecting all virtual asset service providers (VASPs), including digital asset exchanges. The penalty will be levied if there is a failure to report suspicious transaction activities, failure to keep relevant data on such transactions and failure to keep separate management of customers’ transaction records.