OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Why the US stablecoin KYC rule stops at…
A five-agency US rule proposed on June 18, 2026 would treat payment stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act and force them to run customer identity checks — but only at the…
AMLA’s single rulebook splits EU AML from the…
The European Union is replacing 27 national anti-money-laundering regimes with one: from July 10, 2027, the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) applies directly across the bloc, and the Frankfurt-based Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) — operational since…
Why sanctioning crypto code splits the US, EU…
After a US appeals court forced the Treasury to delist Tornado Cash, the United States, European Union and United Kingdom are diverging sharply on whether sanctions and criminal law can reach privacy-tool code and the…
How the FATF Travel Rule sunrise gap splits…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel Rule for crypto now has legislation in 85 of 117 surveyed jurisdictions, but divergent thresholds and weak enforcement leave a "sunrise gap" that forces Virtual Asset Service Providers…
MiCA’s July 1 cliff meets the GENIUS Act’s…
Within 18 days this summer, the world's two largest stablecoin markets lock in incompatible rulebooks: the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) transitional period ends on July 1, 2026, while the United States' GENIUS…
AMLA’s single rulebook splits EU AML from the…
From July 10, 2027, the European Union's Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) and the Frankfurt-based Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) replace 27 national rulebooks with one — and, from 2028,…
FATF Travel Rule 2026: 85 jurisdictions, but enforcement…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel Rule has reached 85 of 163 jurisdictions with passed legislation in 2026 — up from 65 a year earlier — but the binding compliance risk for crypto exchanges,…
Michael Mosier Returns To FinCEN as Digital Innovation…
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a unit of US Treasury, which is tasked with collecting and analyzing information on financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international financial crimes recently revealed the creation…