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…
FATF review: Travel Rule at 83% as stablecoins…
The Financial Action Task Force's July 16, 2026 targeted update reports that 83% of surveyed jurisdictions have now passed Travel Rule legislation — up from 73% a year earlier — while warning that most identified…
FinCEN PPSI rules land July 18: stablecoin issuers…
Ten days from now, on July 18, 2026, six US federal agencies hit the GENIUS Act's statutory deadline to finalise the rules that convert payment stablecoin issuers into Bank Secrecy Act financial institutions — completing…
Why the FATF Travel Rule still splits VASP…
Seven years after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) extended its Travel Rule to crypto, compliance in 2026 still splits sharply by jurisdiction: 85 of 117 surveyed jurisdictions have passed implementing law, but most have…
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…