<article>Japanese online brokerage firm Monex Group Inc said on Friday it would buy hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc, acquiring full ownership of the Tokyo-based firm for 3.6 billion yen ($33.59 million).</article>

Japanese online brokerage firm Monex Group Inc said on Friday it would buy hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc, acquiring full ownership of the Tokyo-based firm for 3.6 billion yen ($33.59 million).
Monex, Japan&#8217;s No.3 online brokerage by customer accounts, said in a statement it would execute the deal on April 16. Coincheck&#8216;s CEO and COO will resign from the board of directors and become the company&#8217;s executive directors, Monex said.
Toshihiko Katsuya, Monex&#8216;s managing director and senior executive officer, will become president and representative director of Coincheck.
The companies will hold a press conference at 16:00 local time (07:00 GMT).
The deal will allow Monex to access Coincheck&#8216;s trading platform and customer base. Monex said Coincheck generated net income of 471 million yen ($4.4 million) for the year ended in March.
The deal bring another mainstream financial services operator into the frontier cryptocurrency trading market in Japan. Larger rival SBI Holdings Inc last year obtained a licence to run a cryptocurrency exchange, but in February postponed plans to do so as it sought to bolster the security of its exchange.
Coincheck was hit by a daring $530 million theft of digital money earlier this year, prompting penalties from Japan&#8217;s financial regulators for lax security protocols.
Reuters

Toshihiko Katsuya, Monex's managing director and senior executive officer, will become president and representative director of Coincheck.

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