Will DeFi Monitoring in the EU Cause an Industry Boost or Roadblock?

The EC is ramping up its crypto surveillance efforts with decentralized finance (DeFi) as the primary target for a new “embedded supervision” project. The post Will DeFi Monitoring in the EU Cause an Industry Boost or Roadblock? appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Canadian Regulator Issues New Rules on Exposure to Cryptocurrencies for Entities Under Its Supervision

The public affairs office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has announced an interim approach for crypto assets held by federally regulated financial institutions and will reduce the contact with cryptocurrencies.

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In the wake of Terra’s collapse, South Korea plans new crypto oversight committee: Report

The infamous collapse of Terra may have hastened the creation of a supervision and control entity for digital assets, which is set to launch in early June.

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Tradesilvania Appoints Former FIU Romania Head of Supervision As New Risk & Regulatory Affairs Director

Premium cryptocurrency and digital asset investment platform Tradesilvania has announced the appointment of Mihaela Anamaria Dragoiu as its new Risk & Regulatory Affairs Director. Until now, Mihaela was the Head of Prevention, Supervision, and Control Directorate of FIU Romania (ONPCS).

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Basel Committee Proposes Differentiating Regulation of Crypto Assets Based on Risks to Banks

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed dividing crypto assets into two groups and regulating them based on their market, liquidity, credit, and operational risks to banks. Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, will be subject to “a new conservative prudential treatment.

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‘All Banks Go Fintech’: Hong Kong Unveils ‘Fintech 2025’ Strategy

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) plans to guide local banks towards full adoption of fintech technologies, a new strategy reveals. The region’s central banking institution also stressed that it’s going to “walk the talk” by digitalizing its own supervision of financial institutions.

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China’s state-run media slams Bitcoin trading, calls for stricter supervision

Following the Bitcoin mining debacle that originated from China earlier this week, Xinhua News, the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China, published a new article today, highlighting the risks of cryptocurrency trading.

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BIS Report Proposes “Embedded Supervision” for Stablecoins

The paper, published on Nov 24, cites the potential of Facebook’s Libra stablecoin to become a de-facto global currency. This, they say, is evidence that regulators must accept the inevitability of stablecoin adoption and find new ways to carry out their functions.

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Crypto scammers from Poland use new kind of attack

A warning was issued by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) as a new...

The post Crypto scammers from Poland use new kind of attack appeared first on Coin Journal.

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China Adds a New City to Their Fintech Pilot Initiative

China’s central bank adds a new city to its fintech innovation supervision pilot.

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New LATAM-based crypto exchange Banexcoin now open

Banexcoin, a new cryptocurrency and blockchain asset exchange is now live and actively registering new users in Latin America. Notably, Banexcoin is an active payment gateway for Peruvian sol. For peace of mind, Banexcoin is a registered currency exchange house with the SBS, a banking superintendency responsible for the regulation and supervision of the Peruvian […] CryptoNinjas: New LATAM-based crypto exchange Banexcoin now open

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Fidelity займется кастодиальным хранением криптовалют в Нью-Йорке

Подразделение американской холдинговой компании Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC (FDAS) получило траст Департамента финансовых услуг штата Нью-Йорк (NYDFS). Разрешение открывает перед организацией возможность предоставления кастодиальных услуг и сервисов для проведения операций с bitcoin.

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Binance Teams Up With Coinfirm To Comply With FATF AML Requirements

Top crypto exchange platform Binance has teamed up with crypto analytic firm Coinfirm to enhance its anti-money laundering (AML) adherence. The new partnership will see Binance integrate Coinfirm’s agnostic AML platform to improve the crypto exchange’s compliance with the new AML requirements recently provided by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial supervision […]

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CFTC Taps Coinbase’s VP to Lead Division Responsible for Bitcoin Futures Oversight

Coinspeaker CFTC Taps Coinbase’s VP to Lead Division Responsible for Bitcoin Futures OversightAt CFTC, Coinbase's Dorothy D. DeWitt will be responsible for the supervision of derivatives platforms, including bitcoin futures, swap data repositories, as well as for the evaluation of the new platform-traded products.

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Blockchain’s ‘Embedded Supervision’ Could Allow For Easier And Faster Compliance: BIS Economist

Raphael Auer, an important economist of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), has recently devised a new low-cost solution for compliance in the financial market. The BIS, which is known as the central bank of all central banks, has an interest in the stability of the world economy and has been recently interested in the […]

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Dutch central bank has new rules for crypto, says it’s ‘vulnerable to financial crime’

The Dutch central bank has today announced it must begin supervising cryptocurrency companies (including wallet providers) under the fifth European anti-money laundering directive, which came into effect in July.

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Reuters: Japanese Regulators to Introduce New Rules Regarding Exchanges’ Cold Wallets

Reuters reports that the Japanese FSA will require cryptocurrency exchanges to strengthen internal supervision of cold wallets

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LocalBitcoins, Once a Go-To for Anonymous Bitcoin Transactions, Adds KYC

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.

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Finland’s Regulatory Watchdog Plans to Supervise Localbitcoins Operations

On Monday, the Helsinki-based peer-to-peer crypto exchange Localbitcoins announced it is adding several different identification processes in order to improve AML and KYC requirements. The move to bolster the new customer verification procedure follows Finland’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) mandating supervision over exchange operations.

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Basel Committee: Growth of Bitcoin is a Bad Sign For Global Banking System

The growth of crypto assets like bitcoin is a bad sign for the global banking system, warned the Basel Committee. The banking supervision forum said that crypto assets had become popular despite exhibiting a high degree of volatility and risk.

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Reserve Bank of India to Set Up a Blockchain and AI Unit

After being engaged in a bitter legal fight with the country’s crypto operators, the Reserve Bank of India is reportedly setting up a new unit that will monitor emerging technologies such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.

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DAEX ICO

The goal of DAEX is to provide a better infrastructure for the cryptocurrency trading industry by taking the reasonable parts of the mainstream securities trading industry and by taking advantages of new opportunities brought about by the distributed ledger technology.

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Maerki Baumann Is the Latest Swiss Bank to Embrace Crypto

Maerki Baumann — a private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland — has announced it will manage its clients’ cryptocurrency assets. This makes it the second Swiss bank to make such an announcement following Hypothekarbank Lenzburg (Hypi), which stated in June that it would open business accounts for cryptocurrency companies.

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Mt. Gox Creditors May Be Reimbursed in Bitcoin Under Civil Rehabilitation

The Japan-based Mt. Gox exchange had its bankruptcy stayed due to a petition filed by some of the creditors for the commencement of civil rehabilitation proceedings in Tokyo District Court on November 24, 2017, and heard today, June 22, 2018.

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Major Banks Dealing In Bitcoin

It was announced last week that two large Russian banks are building cryptocurrency portfolios for their biggest clients. Under the supervision of Bank of Russia, companies are beginning to offer customers and clients shares in a brand new fund that trades in six of the most popular cryptocurrencies available to trade on the market today.

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