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2021 was when Bitcoin became a trillion-dollar asset class and appears to have become a tipping point for institutional interest in cryptocurrencies. A recent survey carried out by Nataxis Investment Managers found that 28% of institutions had already invested in crypto, while nearly a third plan to increase their cryptocurrency
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On Dec. 14, the United States Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing titled “Stablecoins: How Do They Work, How Are They Used, and What Are Their Risks?” The testimonies, both spoken and written, focused largely on the last two issues, as anxieties over Know Your Customer
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Schroder’s bringing on of Majalya, the Binance.US CEO’s first executive in the “risk” division, telegraphs the exchange means business on the compliance front. That could be pivotal as U.S. lawmakers continue to apply pressure to the nascent crypto industry, which some have argued is under-regulated. Original Source
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Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis said it will provide data and compliance tools to Robinhood’s online crypto trading service, Robinhood Crypto.Robinhood (Nasdaq: HOOD) will use the software to meet compliance requirements and help keep accounts safe, Chainalysis said in a blog post Monday.Robinhood Crypto will use Chainalysis KYT to flag “risky
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Each year that we get a little further away from Satoshi Nakomoto’s whitepaper, crypto becomes more popular than ever, breaking more barriers — not just in sheer enthusiasm, but in mainstream acceptance. From nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to the Metaverse, 2021 was the year of crypto, even following a decade where
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New cryptocurrencies and trading platforms are proliferating. Blockchains are increasing in both numbers and length. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are entering the mainstream. In other words, the crypto world is unrecognizable from how it began. But along with this growth, crypto crime is also on the rise. Managing this threat is
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Tether announced on Tuesday that it has begun a trial partnership with Notabene, a digital identity startup that provides know-your-customer (KYC) infrastructure to crypto exchanges, to help it comply with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s “travel rule,” which requires financial institutions to exchange KYC information for both senders and
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“What we already provide for some of the larger crypto exchanges is the behavioral side. So looking at when Entity A sends money to Entity B via Entity C,” Dickinson explained in an interview. “Elliptic then gives us the ability to say this entity, if you follow up or down
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At the IRS-CI, Price headed international investigations into individuals and groups looking to use cryptocurrency for illegal intent, including the successful prosecution of the operator of Helix, a darknet mixing service that sent out transactions in mixed batches to mask the identity of senders. In his 15 years in law
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The announcement coincides with Robinhood Crypto also hiring Benjamin Melnicki as its new chief compliance officer. Melnicki, who was most recently chief compliance officer at digital asset manager Grayscale Investments, joins Robinhood at a time when its crypto arm is dealing with a degree of regulatory scrutiny. (Grayscale and CoinDesk
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