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Bipartisan bill to give CFTC authority over exchanges and stablecoins
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in D.C. introduced an updated bill on April 28 to regulate cryptocurrency developers, dealers, exchanges, and stablecoin providers, bringing them under the regulatory control of the United States Commodity…
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Cuban Central Bank to license Virtual Asset Providers
The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has announced that it will provide licenses to both Cuban and international virtual asset service providers, including organizations, individuals, or legal persons. This Spanish-language resolution was…
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Kraken Becomes First Global Crypto Exchange Fully Licensed by Abu Dhabi Global Market – Regulation…
Abu Dhabi Global Market has awarded a full financial license to crypto exchange Kraken. “Kraken will be the first global virtual assets exchange group in the UAE to offer investors the ability to invest, trade, withdraw and deposit…
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Takeaways and reviews, what went down during Miami Tech Week
Miami Tech Week took place last week in the South Florida city as part of April's Tech Month programming, which also included NFT Miami and the Bitcoin 2022 conference earlier in the month. Tech Week kicked off with the eMerge Americas…
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Ukraine’s central bank bans use of UAH in crypto purchases
The National Bank of Ukraine said the move is intended to prevent an unproductive outflow of capital.
Crypto purchases can only be completed using foreign currency, with monthly restrictions of 100,000 Ukrainian hryvnia per individual.…
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Crypto Businesses Ask 27 EU Finance Ministers to Loosen Disclosure Requirements – Regulation Bitcoin…
Forty-six European crypto businesses and organizations have asked finance ministers in 27 European countries to loosen some regulatory requirements for the crypto industry. For example, they asked for decentralized finance (defi)…
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US Treasury Dept sanctions 3 Ethereum addresses allegedly linked to North Korea
The United States Treasury Department has added three Ethereum wallet addresses to sanctions allegedly linked to the hacker group responsible for the theft of more than $600 million in crypto from nonfungible token game Axie Infinity’s…
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OCC says Anchorage Digital failed to implement AML requirements
Anchorage Digital Bank has agreed to remedial action and will appoint a Bank Secrecy Act officer to help ensure compliance.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the United States national bank regulator, has issued a…
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Russian Bankers Suggest Criminalizing Crypto Storage in Non-Custodial Wallets – Regulation Bitcoin…
Keeping cryptocurrencies in non-custodial wallets may be criminalized in Russia, if authorities accept a proposal from the trade association representing Russian banks. While financial regulators think the idea deserves attention,…
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Half of assessed jurisdictions don’t have ‘adequate laws and regulatory…
The Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, reported that many countries, including those with virtual asset service providers (VASPs), are not in compliance with its standards on Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and Anti-Money…
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