The Financial Services Agency (FSA) proposed a series of suggestions for ICO regulation, focusing on investor protection and money laundering prevention. FSA report states: “Appropriate rules must be set to enable ICO to obtain public trust and to expand as a sound and reliable financing method”. The group added that ICO projects must be acceptable to existing shareholders and debt holders and must not be used as a means of circumventing traditional financing methods. For the investor protection, FSA suggested that token issuers should comply with existing KYC methods in order to assess the suitability of investors and to confirm their identities.