Japanese online brokerage Monex Group Inc. said Friday it has agreed to purchase all outstanding shares in troubled cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc. for 3.6 billion yen ($33.6 million).The move would give Coincheck the financial backing necessary to rebuild after losing 58 billion yen of customers' digital assets in a hacking attack earlier this year, while allowing Monex to gain a foothold in the cryptocurrency business."Coincheck is a global leader in cryptocurrency. We aim to fuse Monex's financial know-how and Coincheck's innovative philosophy," Monex CEO Oki Matsumoto told a pres…READ FULL ARTICLE
