2022-12-9 15:53 |
Virtual asset service providers will be covered by terror financing and anti-money laundering rules as of June next year. origin »
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The legislative council of Hong Kong has amended its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) financing system to include virtual/crypto asset service providers. The legisThe post Hong Kong to subject crypto exchanges to the same laws governing TradFi appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-12-8 17:20 | |
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The approval will allow Binance to offer exchange and custodial services in Spain in compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations. Bank of Spain Gives Green Light on Binance...
2022-7-8 14:47 | |
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MONEYVAL, Europe’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT) watchdog, has prioritized monitoring the crypto industry, as well as “gatekeeper” professionals like attorneys and accountants, in European countries’ efforts to prevent money laundering.
2022-5-5 02:14 | |
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Coinbase, along with 17 other crypto firms, recently launched a ‘Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology’ (TRUST), a platform that will enable the group of well-established US companies to achieve compliance with anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations–announced the largest crypto exchange in the US.
2022-2-18 08:30 | |
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Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Chrystia Freeland announced at a press conference that the government has invoked the Emergencies Act to expand the scope of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules to cover crowdfunding platforms and their payment service providers in an effort to crack down on the “Freedom Convoy” protests.
2022-2-16 22:00 | |
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The panel’s mandate will include exploring KYC processes, digital banking, blockchain for attracting investments, terrorism financing, and anti-money laundering. The government of Sri Lanka approved the formation of a panel to study the regulations and rules applicable to blockchain, digital banking, and crypto mining in other countries.
2021-10-8 12:24 | |
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The Cardano Foundation has partnered with blockchain analytics provider Coinfirm to deploy Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) analytics. According to a statement relThe post Cardano Foundation announces Coinfirm partnership to 'enhance security of crypto' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-25 13:19 | |
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The Dutch central bank (DNB) has also issued a regulatory warning against Binance for providing its services in the Netherlands without the required registration. The leading cryptocurrency exchange was not compliant with the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act, said the Nederlandsche Bank.
2021-8-19 16:44 | |
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The EU is stepping up its anti-money laundering (AML) game and crypto monitoring with the introduction of a new agency. European Commission Proposes New Anti Money Laundering Regulator Documents seen by Reuters confirmed that the EU bloc is taking a tougher stand on money laundering, terrorist financing, and organized crime.
2021-7-9 19:39 | |
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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released a report called “Ethnically or Racially Motivated Terrorism Financing” that talks about the use of cryptocurrencies by terrorists to move funds. The global anti-money laundering watchdog said few countries had designated extreme right-wing groups (ERW) or individuals as terrorists who appear to be becoming more adept at disguising […] The post Extreme Right-Wing Groups Using Virtual Assets and Stablecoins to Move Funds: FATF Report first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-7-2 19:45 | |
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Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said yesterday that numerous crypto businesses are withdrawing their application to legally register, while failing to meet anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules.
2021-6-5 19:00 | |
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The Turkish government has updated the country’s cryptocurrency regulation following the banning of cryptocurrencies for payments and failing crypto exchanges. Published in the Official Gazette on Saturday, the new rule adds crypto trading platforms to the list of entities covered by anti-money laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) regulations. The Official Gazette […]
2021-5-3 10:30 | |
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The U.S. Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism laws: Where will these updates lead the crypto space?
2021-1-25 18:41 | |
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Hedera Hashgraph, the enterprise-grade distributed ledger, and TRM, the cryptocurrency compliance and risk management platform, today announced that TRM has successfully integrated with the Hedera public ledger, and customers can leverage the integration to comply with Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory requirements HBAR, Hedera’s native cryptocurrency, is now supported across all TRM […] CryptoNinjas » AML/CFT compliance solutions now available for HBAR and any assets issued on Hedera
2020-12-24 20:31 | |
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Bruno Le Maire–the French Minister of Finance, in a press release on Dec 9, is ordering all cryptocurrency providers to enforce strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules to combat terrorist financing.
2020-12-11 00:00 | |
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Liechtenstein based LCX, today announced a partnership with Pliance. LCX is enhancing its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes such as screening of Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), Combating the Financing of...
2020-9-22 07:17 | |
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The financial crimes network is looking to revamp its counter-terrorist financing (CTF) and anti-money... The post FinCEN prepares an overhaul of AML and CTF rules appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-9-18 13:44 | |
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U. K Financial regulators continue to pressure crypto businesses about their obligations. British authorities have even threatened forced closures for defaulters. Across the globe, financial watchdogs have brought down the hammer on the crypto market with a particular focus on anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT).
2020-6-24 17:07 | |
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We recently caught up with Bryan Seiler, CEO at TAGZ, a major Australian cryptocurrency exchange. TAGZ is reportedly one of the world’s biggest, fully-regulated and licensed anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) compliant crypto exchanges.
2020-2-13 09:42 | |
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Prathiba Jain, Founder and New Delhi Head of the Nishith Desai Associates, spoke at "Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AMLCTF) System in Modern FinTech Industry", at the World EcoThe post India needs to ease regulations around FinTech, according to this lawyer appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-26 13:00 | |
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Australia-based crypto exchange TAGZ is reportedly one of the largest fully-regulated and licensed anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CTF) compliant trading platforms in the digital asset industry.
2020-1-15 09:32 | |
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From today, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will oversee companies doing business with crypto assets. The change is part of previous amendments to the nation’s anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing regulations.
2020-1-10 17:09 | |
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Australian Detectives known as the ‘E-Crime Squad’ have arrested a man for providing unregistered cryptocurrency services. Authorities charged the man for breaking anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
2019-11-12 13:20 | |
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United States Treasury Under Secretary of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Sigal Mandelker, has declared that Facebook’s proposed Libra global cryptocurrency project will not be launched unless Libra complies with tough anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terrorist financing standards, reports Reuters on September 10, 2019.
2019-9-11 16:16 | |
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Facebook’s Libra stablecoin must meet the highest Anti-Money Laundering and terrorism financing norms, according to a United States Treasury official
2019-9-11 17:32 | |
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Neil Walsh, chief of the cybercrime and anti-money laundering arm of the United Nations' department on drugs and crime, has stated that the "anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing" aspects of cryptocurrencies have made it extremely difficult to combat terrorist financing, money laundering, and cybercrime.
2019-8-31 19:58 | |
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By CCN Markets: A senior UN official, Neil Walsh, claims that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made the task of fighting money laundering, terror financing, and cybercrime tougher than ever due to the relative anonymity they allegedly offer.
2019-8-30 17:53 | |
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The Association of Cryptocurrency Enterprises and Start-ups, Singapore (ACCESS) together with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) developed a new ‘Code of Practice’ to set standards of good practice regarding Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism measures for crypto-related businesses.
2019-8-20 13:00 | |
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Japanese blockchain company BUIDL has launched SHIEDL, an anti-money laundering (AML) and counter financing of terrorism (CFT) tool for cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-7-26 22:00 | |
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According to the nonprofit research and advocacy center called Coin Center, the proposed anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations violate users’ privacy rights. Coin Center has urged Her Majesty’s Treasury not to implement these regulations.
2019-6-11 02:50 | |
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Nonprofit crypto policy center Coin Center has urged Her Majesty’s Treasury not to over-broaden the scope of U.K.’s anti-money laundering/counter terrorism financing regulations
2019-6-11 22:36 | |
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Crypto security and intelligence firm CipherTrace has published its Q1 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, revealing that exchange platforms all over the world have lost nearly $400 million as a result of hacks and thefts.
2019-5-3 17:40 | |
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North Korea could pose a threat to countries across Southeast Asia as it looks to exploit cryptocurrency exchanges due to gaps in regulatory frameworks, according to a new report.
2019-4-25 17:04 | |
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It has been recently revealed that the G20 countries will be coming together to discuss regulations regarding the presence of cryptocurrencies. As per news outlet, News. Bitcoin. com, the discussion stems from the fact that cryptocurrencies need further following and are required to meet the standards of the AML (anti-money laundering) and CTF (counter-terrorism financing) policies (https://news.
2019-4-19 20:20 | |
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Anti-money laundering cryptocurrency regulation will be discussed by G20 member countries June 8-9 in Fukuoka, Japan, a recent report claims
2019-4-7 13:34 | |
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The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.
2019-3-28 18:00 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Beyond adoption, CySEC hopes to expand on the directive’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing crypto regulations.
2019-2-21 00:38 | |
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The Fifth Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directive, implemented originally by the European Union (EU), became active in July of 2018. The directive made it possible for the EU’s regulators to monitor crypto-related businesses and service providers, based on the intention of reducing the risk of money laundering and terrorism financing. The directive has now been transposed […]
2019-2-20 01:02 | |
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The Financial Action Task Force recommendation is part of a broader report about British anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism systems.
2018-12-10 11:38 | |
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Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
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CoinSpeaker Singapore Releases Updated ICO Guide The updated guide clarifies the Singapore central bank’s stance on how certain intermediaries should observe the rules determined by Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism policies. Singapore Releases Updated ICO Guide
2018-12-3 12:35 | |
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On November 30 and December 1, the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit, the thirteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20), was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to the section 25 of G20 leaders’ declaration, G20 countries will regulate crypto-assets for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism in line with Financial Action Task […]
2018-12-3 19:35 | |
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Taiwan Legislature Places New Requirements For Cryptocurrency Exchanges A new Taiwan law has been passed to amend existing anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) laws to require crypto exchanges to give some information to the government and change their compliance rules.
2018-11-3 00:12 | |
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Taiwan’s legislature has amended the country’s anti-money laundering and terrorism financing prevention laws to include regulatory requirements for cryptocurrency transactions. Taiwan’s Anti Money Laundering Regulations for Cryptocurrency According to Focus Taiwan, the amendments grant the country’s top financial regulator (FSC) the power to clamp down on anonymous cryptocurrency transactions.
2018-11-3 22:57 | |
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The Financial Action Task Force announced plans to set forth rules regulating cryptocurrency in line with its global AML/CFT standards. This move is geared towards eradicating the use of digital currencies for money laundering and financing terrorism.
2018-10-19 23:04 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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Most digital exchanges are unregulated and therefore unqualified to safely process cryptocurrency transactions. They don’t employ necessary know-your-customer (KYC) tactics, and roughly $1 billion in digital asset funds have been stolen since the start of 2018.
2018-10-13 23:34 | |
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On September 23, 2018, the Bitcoin Foundation sent a letter to the French Parliament asking that they reject a new crypto asset amendment being proposed in the PACTE Bill, which deals with the growth and transformation of France’s businesses and the country’s employee savings.
2018-10-4 22:10 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.