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FinCEN Eyes Cryptocurrency Amid 1,500 Monthly Complaints

FinCEN Eyes Cryptocurrency Amid 1,500 Monthly Complaints
FinCEN Eyes Cryptocurrency Amid 1,500 Monthly Complaints
August 13, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

1,500 complaints about suspicious activity per month. That’s the tally that FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco told a conference last week that FinCEN, which operates as...

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Regulators Eyeing Social Media In Europe
Regulators Eyeing Social Media In Europe
May 21, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

Against the backdrop of social media controversy — remember Facebook, of course, and 87 million users’ data exposed to Cambridge Analytica — oversight is tightening...

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May’s Days See CDD And GDPR Take Effect
May’s Days See CDD And GDPR Take Effect
May 14, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

May 11 marked a watershed moment of sorts when, this past Friday, the final customer due diligence rule via the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...

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Beyond Bitcoin, Token Regulation Looms, While Dodd-Frank Still in Bloom?
Beyond Bitcoin, Token Regulation Looms, While Dodd-Frank Still in Bloom?
May 07, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

Bitcoin may be the marquee name in cryptocurrencies, but regulation may loom for its digital dollar brethren. Recent inquiries from regulators in the federal securities...

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ICOs On US Lawmakers’ Radar, As Ban Mulled
ICOs On US Lawmakers’ Radar, As Ban Mulled
April 30, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

Initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have been on the receiving end of much criticism and a growing amount of regulatory scrutiny. Now the trend may...

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Canadian Regulator On Innovation’s Slow Roll
Canadian Regulator On Innovation’s Slow Roll
February 05, 2018  |  ANTITRUST

Oh, Canada, Open Banking and finTech innovation?  No frozen landscape there, if regulators look toward a recent study of competition (and cooperation) across payments stakeholders. ...

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PSD2 Takes Center Stage And Open Banking Era Opens
PSD2 Takes Center Stage And Open Banking Era Opens
January 15, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

And so, it’s finally here. If a monolith must move, can it dance? The monolith is the U.K.’s banking system. The “finally here” is the...

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Fed Gets New Payments Security Head, Bitcoin Gets More Scrutiny
Fed Gets New Payments Security Head, Bitcoin Gets More Scrutiny
December 11, 2017  |  News

While the world watched bitcoin, there were other events in the regulatory arena that bore watching. A few among them? Take some executive moves at...

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