Unpacking Biden’s Crypto Executive Order
Rather than an exhaustive dossier of rules and regulations providing next steps for crypto firms, President Joe Biden’s March 9 ...
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Where the Money Is: Cryptocurrency Industry Grapples With Rising Cybersecurity Risks
So long as cryptocurrency remains largely unregulated in the U.S. and most of the rest of the world (and even ...
Q&A: The SEC Would Love to Regulate Cryptocurrencies, But So Far, Their Efforts Are Hobbled. What’s the Current and Future State for Investment Managers?
President Joe Biden signed an executive order March 9 intended to instill consumer protection and financial stability, prevent illicit uses ...
Shyft Launches Veriscope to Help Crypto Exchanges Comply With Travel Rule
Shyft Network has formally launched its new tool, Veriscope, designed to help cryptocurrency exchanges avoid the so-called “sunrise issue” as ...
To Ensure Anti-Ransomware Compliance in Crypto Transactions, Financial Institutions Have a Mountain to Climb
With increased scrutiny from a litany of regulators, cryptocurrency exchanges and financial institutions are now required to monitor, flag and ...
Where Central Banks Stand on Digital Currency
Clamored for in Europe, already implemented in China, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are viewed by many American leaders as ...
Your Company May Be a Likely Target of State Attorneys General. You May Not See It Coming.
Risk and compliance teams are familiar with potential enforcement from federal regulators. But action from state attorneys general (acting alone ...
El Salvador’s Crypto-Bro President Is Flirting with AML Disaster
The speed and haste by which El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender has opened the door for significant risk ...
Can Regulators Keep Up With Innovation?
Disruptive technologies like AI, cryptocurrency, biometrics and blockchain have taken the world by storm, but fintech regulations have struggled to ...
With Salvadoran Adoption of Bitcoin, Firms Must Navigate Uncharted Waters
In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. It will likely not be ...
Banks Need to Be Able to Pinpoint Cryptocurrency Ransomware Payments. But Effective Methods Remain in Their Infancy.
Instances of ransomware attacks – and resulting payments via cryptocurrency – continue to increase at an accelerating rate. As the ...
In Regulating the Crypto Wild West, Is the SEC Imposing Order or Grabbing Land?
Increased regulation of cryptocurrencies by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears imminent. But details, scope and timing are up ...
